Regulation of hypothalamic neuropeptides gene expression in diet induced obesity resistant rats: Possible targets for obesity prediction?

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Cifani, C ^a,d   Micioni Di Bonaventura, M V ^a   Pucci, M ^b   Giusepponi, M E ^a   Romano, A ^c   Di Francesco, A ^b   Maccarrone, M ^e,f   D'Addario, C ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^f IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diet induced obesity; DNA methylation; Gene expression; High fat diet; Hypothalamus; Neuropeptides

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; DNA; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

AGRP GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CART GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET INDUCED OBESITY; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEPR GENE; LIPID DIET; MALE; NONHUMAN; NPY GENE; PHENOTYPE; POMC GENE; PPARGAMMA GENE; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84930633202     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00187     Document Type: Article

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