Middle-aged female rats retain sensitivity to the anorexigenic effect of exogenous estradiol

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 159-164

  Santollo, Jessica ^a   Yao, Dachun ^a   Neal Perry, Genevieve ^a   Etgen, Anne M ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Estradiol; Estrogen receptor alpha; Food intake

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OREXIN; PREPROMELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; SEROTONIN 2C RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR GENE; DNA SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEPTIN RECEPTOR GENE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y GENE; NONHUMAN; OREXIN GENE; PREPROMELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN GENE; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTONIN 2C RECEPTOR GENE;

AGING; ANIMALS; APPETITE DEPRESSANTS; BODY WEIGHT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIESTRUS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EATING; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84860307863     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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