Obesity/hyperleptinemic phenotype impairs structural and functional plasticity in the rat hippocampus

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 138-144

  Grillo, Claudia A ^a   Piroli, Gerardo G ^a   Junor, Lorain ^a   Wilson, Steven P ^a   Mott, David D ^a   Wilson, Marlene A ^a   Reagan, Lawrence P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiposity; Fear conditioning; Lentivirus; Leptin; Morphology; STAT3; Triglycerides

Indexed keywords

INSULIN RECEPTOR; LEPTIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERLEPTINEMIA; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEPTIN; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; OBESITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 80053435488     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.02.028     Document Type: Article

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