Metabolic signaling to the central nervous system: Routes across the blood brain barrier

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1392-1399

  Smith, Pauline M ^a   Ferguson, Alastair V ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arcuate; Area postrema; Circumventricular organs; Food intake; Hypothalamus; Leptin; Obesity; Subfornical organ

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTOKINE; LEPTIN;

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; AREA POSTREMA; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CHOROID PLEXUS; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MEDIAN EMINENCE; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SUBFORNICAL ORGAN; TRANSENDOTHELIAL AND TRANSEPITHELIAL MIGRATION; ANIMAL; CALORIC INTAKE; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EATING; ENERGY INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84896353424     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: 18734286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/13816128113199990560     Document Type: Review

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