Effects of alarin on food intake, body weight and luteinizing hormone secretion in male mice

Neuropeptides

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 99-104

  Fraley, Gregory S ^a   Leathley, Emily ^a   Lundy, Nicole ^a   Chheng, Emily ^a   King, Issurah ^a   Kofler, Barbara ^b  

^a HOPE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Body weight; Fos; Galanin; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

ALARIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROTEIN FOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; FEEDING; FOOD INTAKE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; EATING; GALANIN-LIKE PEPTIDE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 84858288486     PISSN: 01434179     EISSN: 15322785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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