Action of neurotransmitter: A key to unlock the AgRP neuron feeding circuit

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JAN, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Tiemin ^a   Wang, Qian ^a   Berglund, Eric D ^a   Tong, Qingchun ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

AgRP neurons; Feeding; Parabrachial nucleus; Paraventricular hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; GHRELIN; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MELANOCORTIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN C FOS; STAT3 PROTEIN;

BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEEDING; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84879001676     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00200     Document Type: Review

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