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Ventromedial nucleus neurons are less sensitive to leptin excitation in rats bred to develop diet-induced obesity.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology - 1 Mar 2009
Irani Boman G, Le Foll Christelle, Dunn-Meynell Ambrose A, Levin Barry E
Abstract excerpt
Maternal obesity accentuates offspring obesity in dams bred to develop diet-induced obesity (DIO) on a 31% fat, high energy (HE) diet but has no effect on offspring of diet-resistant (DR) dams. Only DIO dams became obese on HE diet when they and DR dams were fed 5% fat chow or HE diets throughout gestation and lactation. Leptin sensitivity of dissociated arcuate (ARC) and ventromedial (VMN) hypothalamic nucleus...
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