An intact dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus, but not the subzona incerta or reuniens nucleus, is necessary for short-day melatonin signal-induced responses in siberian hamsters

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-39

  Leitner, Claudia ^a   Bartness, Timothy J ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lesion; Lipolysis; Photoperiod; Testicular regression

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; GLYCEROL; MELATONIN; MELATONIN 1 RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DAY LENGTH; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FOOD INTAKE; GLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; LIPOLYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHODOPUS; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CRICETINAE; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; EATING; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; GLYCEROL; MALE; MELATONIN; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; SUBTHALAMUS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 79951681572     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000320474     Document Type: Article

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