A single postnatal injection of oxytocin rescues the lethal feeding behaviour in mouse newborns deficient for the imprinted Magel2 gene

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 4895-4905

  Schaller, Fabienne ^a,b,c   Watrin, Françoise ^a,b,c   Sturny, Rachel ^a,c   Massacrier, Annick ^b,c   Szepetowski, Pierre ^b,c   Muscatelli, Françoise ^a,b,c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Turing Center for Living Systems CENTURI Aix Marseille University   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN; OREXIN A; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGEL2 GENE; MALE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUCKLING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; OXYTOCIN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 78649454993     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddq424     Document Type: Article

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