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Feeding microstructure in diet-induced obesity susceptible versus resistant rats: central effects of urocortin 2.
The Journal of physiology - 1 Sept 2007
Cottone Pietro, Sabino Valentina, Nagy Tim R, Coscina Donald V, Zorrilla Eric P
Abstract excerpt
With one billion people overweight worldwide, the need to identify risk factors and treatments for obesity is urgent. The present study determined whether rats genetically prone to diet-induced obesity (DIO) show preexisting differences in meal microstructure and are sensitive to central anorectic effects of corticotropin-releasing factor type 2 (CRF(2)) receptor stimulation. Male, selectively bred DIO rats and...
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