Article
Ontogeny of neuropeptide Y expression in response to deprivation in lean Zucker rat pups.
The American journal of physiology - 1 Aug 1998
Kowalski T J, Houpt T A, Jahng J, Okada N, Chua S C, Smith G P
Abstract excerpt
Hypothalamic neuropeptide Y (NPY) activity is believed to play an important role in the response to food deprivation in adult rats. Little is known, however, about the role of the hypothalamic NPY system in the control of food intake in the preweanling rat. To address this issue, we examined the...
Topics
- Aging
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Arcuate Nucleus of Hypothalamus
- Body Weight
- Crosses, Genetic
- Female
- Food Deprivation
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Genotype
- Heterozygote
- Hypothalamus
- Male
- Maternal Deprivation
- Neurons
- Neuropeptide Y
- Protein Precursors
- Rats