Effects of intracerebroventricular ghrelin on food intake and Fos expression in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus in female rats vary with estrous cycle phase

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 541, Issue , 2013, Pages 204-208

  Sakurazawa, Nobuko ^a   Mano Otagiri, Asuka ^a   Nemoto, Takahiro ^a   Shibasaki, Tamotsu ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor (ER ); Estrous cycle; Food intake; Fos; Ghrelin; NPY

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; GHRELIN; GHRELIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HORMONE ACTION; MEDIOBASAL HYPOTHALAMUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; DIESTRUS; EATING; FEMALE; GHRELIN; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; NEURONS; PROESTRUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GHRELIN; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84876407588     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.02.006     Document Type: Article

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