Gastric electrical stimulation parameter dependently alters ventral medial hypothalamic activity and feeding in obese rats

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 301, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Jing ^a   Maude Griffin, Roland ^b   Zhu, Hongbing ^a   Sun, Yan ^a   Starkebaum, Warren ^b   Firestone, Elizabeth ^b   Chen, Jiande D Z ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Medtronic   (United States)

Author keywords

Food intake; Gastric distension; Obesity; Ventromedial hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEEDING; FOOD INTAKE; HYPOTHALAMUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STOMACH; STOMACH DISTENSION; WEIGHT CHANGE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEURONS; OBESITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STOMACH; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 80055029723     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00487.2010     Document Type: Article

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