Orexigenic effect of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) after injection into hypothalamic nuclei in streptozotocin-diabetic rats

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 989-995

  Hou, Jun ^a   Zheng, De Zhi ^a   Zhou, Ji Yin ^a   Zhou, Shi Wen ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cocaine and amphetamine regulated transcript (CART); diabetes; hypothalamic nucleus; neuropeptides

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; APPETITE STIMULANT; COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFECT; FOOD INTAKE; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID DIET; MALE; NONHUMAN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; EATING; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 77957276049     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2010.05423.x     Document Type: Article

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