Gender-specific roles for the melanocortin-3 receptor in the regulation of the mesolimbic dopamine system in mice

Endocrinology

Volumn 155, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1718-1727

  Lippert, Rachel N ^a   Ellacott, Kate L J ^a,b   Cone, Roger D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; DOPAMINE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; MELANOCORTIN 3 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; SUCROSE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MOUSE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEX ROLE; SUGAR INTAKE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OVARIECTOMY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 3; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84899431771     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-2049     Document Type: Article

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