Sex-dependent changes in metabolism and behavior, as well as reduced anxiety after eliminating ventromedial hypothalamus excitatory output

Molecular Metabolism

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 857-866

  Cheung, Clement C ^a,c   Krause, William C ^a   Edwards, Robert H ^b   Yang, Cindy F ^a   Shah, Nirao M ^a   Hnasko, Thomas S ^b,d   Ingraham, Holly A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Excitatory output; Male aggression; Sex dependent obesity; VGlut2; VMH

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; GENDER; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZONA INCERTA;

EID: 84945307913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22128778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2015.09.001     Document Type: Article

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