The role of the area postrema in the anorectic effects of amylin and salmon calcitonin: Behavioral and neuronal phenotyping

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3055-3066

  Braegger, Fiona E ^a   Asarian, Lori ^a   Dahl, Kirsten ^b   Lutz, Thomas A ^a   Boyle, Christina N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

AP lesion; Meal pattern analysis; Noradrenaline; Rat; VGLUT2

Indexed keywords

AMYLIN; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; PROTEIN FOS; SALCATONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; CALCITONIN; PROTEIN C FOS; SLC17A6 PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA; AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PORTION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RHOMBENCEPHALON; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; EATING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; AREA POSTREMA; CALCITONIN; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; EATING; ISLET AMYLOID POLYPEPTIDE; MALE; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 84908251156     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12672     Document Type: Article

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