Article
Immunoreactive corticotropin-releasing hormone levels in discrete hypothalamic nuclei of genetically obese Zucker rats.
Neuroscience letters - 3 Sept 1993
Nakaishi S, Nakai Y, Fukata J, Naito Y, Usui T, Fukushima M, Jingami H, Nakao K, Imura H
Abstract excerpt
The levels of immunoreactive corticotropin-releasing hormone (ir-CRH) were measured in discrete hypothalamic nuclei and the median eminence of obese Zucker rats and their lean littermates. More than 90% of total hypothalamic ir-CRH was detected in the median eminence in both obese and lean rats....
Topics
- Animals
- Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone
- Female
- Hypothalamus
- Median Eminence
- Obesity
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Rats, Zucker