Minireview: The value of looking backward: The essential role of the hindbrain in counterregulatory responses to glucose deficit

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4019-4032

  Ritter, Sue ^a   Li, Ai Jun ^a   Wang, Qing ^a   Dinh, Thu T ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SENSITIVE POTASSIUM CHANNEL; ADENYLATE KINASE; ADRENALIN; CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; GLUCAGON; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCORECEPTOR; GLUCOSE; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NORADRENALIN; SODIUM GLUCOSE COTRANSPORTER;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; ENERGY; ESTROGEN RELEASE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GLIA; GLUCAGON RELEASE; GLUCOSE DEFICIT; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; MOLECULAR SENSOR; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; EPINEPHRINE; GLUCOSE; HYPOGLYCEMIA; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

EID: 80054952681     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-1458     Document Type: Short Survey

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