Anatomical dissociation of melanocortin receptor agonist effects on taste- and gut-sensitive feeding processes

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 301, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Baird, John Paul ^a   Palacios, Mariana ^a   la Riviere, Michael ^a   Grigg, Lindsay A ^a   Lim, Christopher ^a   Matute, Eduardo ^a   Lord, Julia ^a  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Food; Gustatory; MC4R; Satiation; Satiety

Indexed keywords

MELANOTAN II; QUININE; SACCHARIN; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; FOREBRAIN; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; LICKING; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SATIETY; TASTE ACUITY; VISCERA;

ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; ANOREXIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MALE; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SACCHARIN; SUCROSE; TASTE;

EID: 80053643852     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00577.2010     Document Type: Article

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