Large litter rearing enhances leptin sensitivity and protects selectively bred diet-induced obese rats from becoming obese

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4270-4279

  Patterson, Christa M ^a,f   Bouret, Sebastien G ^b,c   Park, Sunny ^e   Irani, Boman G ^d   Dunn Meynell, Ambrose A ^e   Levin, Barry E ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JEAN PIERRE AUBERT RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Neurology Service   (United States)

^f RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; AGRP PROTEIN, RAT; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMAL; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; DIET; EATING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTATION; LITTER SIZE; MALE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; TIME; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADIPOSITY; AGOUTI-RELATED PROTEIN; ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARCUATE NUCLEUS OF HYPOTHALAMUS; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; DIET; EATING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTATION; LEPTIN; LITTER SIZE; MALE; OBESITY; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; TIME FACTORS; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 77956046109     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-0401     Document Type: Article

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