Noradrenergic neurons of the area postrema mediate amylin's hypophagic action

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 299, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Potes, Catarina S ^a   Turek, Victoria F ^b   Cole, Rebecca L ^b   Vu, Calvin ^b   Roland, Barbara L ^b   Roth, Jonathan D ^b   Riediger, Thomas ^a   Lutz, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine hydroxylase; DSAP lesion; Noradrenaline; Nucleus of the solitary tract

Indexed keywords

AMYLIN; ANTIBODY; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; PROTEIN C FOS; SAPORIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA; AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; HYPOPHAGIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

ADRENERGIC FIBERS; AMYLOID; ANIMALS; ANOREXIA; APPETITE REGULATION; AREA POSTREMA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; EATING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955499946     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00791.2009     Document Type: Article

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