Obesity decreases excitability of putative ventral tegmental area GABAergic neurons

Physiological Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Koyama, Susumu ^a   Kawaharada, Mari ^a   Terai, Hiroki ^a   Ohkurano, Masahiro ^a   Mori, Masayoshi ^a   Kanamaru, Syohei ^a   Hirose, Shinichi ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Fat intake; Feeding behavior; Neurons; Obesity

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ACTION POTENTIAL DURATION; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN SLICE; DIET INDUCED OBESITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIRING RATE; FOOD INTAKE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; INTRAPERITONEAL FAT; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LIPID DIET; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; ORGAN WEIGHT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 85009115830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/phy2.126     Document Type: Article

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