Hindbrain Ghrelin Receptor Signaling Is Sufficient to Maintain Fasting Glucose

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Scott, Michael M ^a,b   Perello, Mario ^a,d   Chuang, Jen Chieh ^a   Sakata, Ichiro ^a   Gautron, Laurent ^a   Lee, Charlotte E ^a   Lauzon, Danielle ^a   Elmquist, Joel K ^a,c   Zigman, Jeffrey M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Celular   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; GHRELIN RECEPTOR; GLUCOSE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LOXP SITE; MALE; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; EATING; FASTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GHRELIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTEGRASES; MALE; MICE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RECEPTORS, GHRELIN; RHOMBENCEPHALON; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 84865661804     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044089     Document Type: Article

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