Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide in the central amygdala causes anorexia and body weight loss via the melanocortin and the TrkB systems

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1846-1855

  Iemolo, Attilio ^a   Ferragud, Antonio ^a   Cottone, Pietro ^a   Sabino, Valentina ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR ANTAGONIST; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; K 252A; MELANOCORTIN; N ACETYL ALPHA INTERMEDIN[4-10]CYCLO[4 NORLEUCINE 5 ASPARTIC ACID 7 [3 (2 NAPHTHYL)ALANINE] 10 LYSINAMIDE]; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; INTERMEDIN; PHENYLALANYL CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING FACTOR (12-41); VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOOD INTAKE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; TIME FACTOR; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANOREXIA; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MELANOCORTINS; MELANOCYTE-STIMULATING HORMONES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, TRKB; TIME FACTORS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 84930818874     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.34     Document Type: Article

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