Effects of leptin infusion during peak lactation on food intake, body composition, litter growth, and maternal neuroendocrine status in female Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii)

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 300, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Cui, Jian Guo ^a,b   Tang, Gang Bin ^a,b   Wang, De Hua ^a   Speakman, John R ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agouti related peptide; Neuropeptide Y; Proopiomelanocortin; Sustained energy intake; Uncoupling protein 1

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; LACTATION; LASIOPODOMYS BRANDTII; LITTER SIZE; MILK PRODUCTION; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PUMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; AGOUTI-RELATED PROTEIN; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; ARVICOLINAE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; ENERGY INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; ION CHANNELS; LACTATION; LEPTIN; LIVER; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; ORGAN SIZE; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN;

EID: 79551506929     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00121.2010     Document Type: Article

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