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Hypothalamic galanin and early state of hyperphagia in obese Zucker rats.
Appetite - 1 Mar 2007
Beck Bernard
Abstract excerpt
Galanin (GAL) stimulates food intake in normal rats when it is injected in different hypothalamic areas involved in feeding such as the paraventricular and ventromedial nuclei and the lateral hypothalamus. At adulthood, the hyperphagic obese Zucker rat is characterized by a general dysregulation of some important neuropeptides involved in the regulation of food intake including GAL. The aim of this study was to...
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