Oxytocin, feeding, and satiety

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Sabatier, Nancy ^a   Leng, Gareth ^a   Menzies, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appetite; Food; Oxytocin; Reward; Satiety

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; AMINOPEPTIDASE; CHOLECYSTOKININ; COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; INSULIN REGULATED AMINOPEPTIDASE; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN; N OLEOYLETHANOLAMINE; NESFATIN 1; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPEPTIDE Y1 RECEPTOR; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROLACTIN RELEASING PEPTIDE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTIRELIN; STAT5 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIM 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD REWARD; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; LACTATION; NATRIURESIS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; REVIEW; SATIETY; STOMACH MOTILITY; SUGAR INTAKE; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; VAGUS REFLEX;

EID: 84884185900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2013.00035     Document Type: Review

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