Leucine acts in the brain to suppress food intake but does not function as a physiological signal of low dietary protein

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 307, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Laeger, Thomas ^a   Reed, Scott D ^a   Henagan, Tara M ^a   Fernandez, Denise H ^a   Taghavi, Marzieh ^b   Addington, Adele ^b   Münzberg, Heike ^a   Martin, Roy J ^a   Hutson, Susan M ^b   Morrison, Christopher D ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Branched chain amino acids; Food intake; Hypothalamus; Macronutrient; Protein restriction

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; LEUCINE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET; DRUG EFFECT; FOOD INTAKE; HYPERPHAGIA; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DIET; PROTEIN INTAKE; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BRANCHED-CHAIN AMINO ACIDS; FOOD INTAKE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MACRONUTRIENT; PROTEIN RESTRICTION;

AMINO ACIDS; AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIET, PROTEIN-RESTRICTED; DIETARY PROTEINS; EATING; HYPERPHAGIA; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LEUCINE; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84905230920     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00116.2014     Document Type: Article

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