The importance of corticosterone in mediating restraint-induced weight loss in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 225-233

  Scherer, Isabell J ^a   Holmes, Philip V ^b   Harris, Ruth B S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenalectomy; Arginine vasopressin; Corticotrophin releasing factor; In situ hybridization; Paraventricular nucleus

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMOBILIZATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 78649583865     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.11.014     Document Type: Article

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