Article
Effects of insulin on brain monoamine metabolism in the Zucker rat: influence of genotype and age.
Psychoneuroendocrinology - 1 Jan 1991
Orosco M, Rouch C, Gripois D, Blouquit M F, Roffi J, Jacquot C, Cohen Y
Abstract excerpt
Disturbances of insulin or brain monoamine metabolism may play a role in the impaired regulation of food intake and body weight in the obese Zucker rat. We investigated a possible insulin-monoamine interaction by measuring monoamine levels in the hypothalamus and striatum of obese (fa-fa) and lea...
Topics
- 3,4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic Acid
- Age Factors
- Animals
- Biogenic Monoamines
- Blood Glucose
- Body Weight
- Brain
- Brain Chemistry
- Corpus Striatum
- Dopamine
- Eating
- Female
- Genotype
- Hydroxyindoleacetic Acid
- Hypothalamus
- Insulin
- Insulin Resistance
- Obesity