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  • Adrenal Cortex/metabolism  (1)
  • Arcuate Nucleus of Hypothalamus/*drug effects/metabolism  (1)
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)  (2)
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    Activation of central melanocortin pathways by fenfluramine (2002)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2002-07-27
    Description: D-fenfluramine (d-FEN) was once widely prescribed and was among the most effective weight loss drugs, but was withdrawn from clinical use because of reports of cardiac complications in a subset of patients. Discerning the neurobiology underlying the anorexic action of d-FEN may facilitate the development of new drugs to prevent and treat obesity. Through a combination of functional neuroanatomy, feeding, and electrophysiology studies in rodents, we show that d-FEN-induced anorexia requires activation of central nervous system melanocortin pathways. These results provide a mechanistic explanation of d-FEN's anorexic actions and indicate that drugs targeting these downstream melanocortin pathways may prove to be effective and more selective anti-obesity treatments.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Heisler, Lora K -- Cowley, Michael A -- Tecott, Laurence H -- Fan, Wei -- Low, Malcolm J -- Smart, James L -- Rubinstein, Marcelo -- Tatro, Jeffrey B -- Marcus, Jacob N -- Holstege, Henne -- Lee, Charlotte E -- Cone, Roger D -- Elmquist, Joel K -- F31HG00201/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- P01DK056116/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- P01DK55819/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01MH061583/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01MH44694/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01MH61624/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R03TW01233/TW/FIC NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Jul 26;297(5581):609-11.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12142539" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Appetite Depressants/*pharmacology ; Arcuate Nucleus of Hypothalamus/*drug effects/metabolism ; Feeding Behavior/*drug effects ; Fenfluramine/*pharmacology ; Male ; Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormones/pharmacology ; Mice ; Mice, Obese ; Mice, Transgenic ; Neurons/drug effects/metabolism ; Paraventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus/drug effects/metabolism ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Pro-Opiomelanocortin/metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Receptor, Melanocortin, Type 3 ; Receptor, Melanocortin, Type 4 ; Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT2C ; Receptors, Corticotropin/metabolism ; Receptors, Serotonin/metabolism ; Serotonin/metabolism ; Serotonin Agents/pharmacology ; alpha-MSH/*metabolism
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    The cloning of a family of genes that encode the melanocortin receptors (1992)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 1992-08-28
    Description: Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) regulate pigmentation and adrenal cortical function, respectively. These peptides also have a variety of biological activities in other areas, including the brain, the pituitary, and the immune system. A complete understanding of the biological activities of these hormones requires the isolation and characterization of their corresponding receptors. The murine and human MSH receptors (MSH-Rs) and a human ACTH receptor (ACTH-R) were cloned. These receptors define a subfamily of receptors coupled to guanine nucleotide-binding proteins that may include the cannabinoid receptor.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mountjoy, K G -- Robbins, L S -- Mortrud, M T -- Cone, R D -- R01 DK43859-02/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1992 Aug 28;257(5074):1248-51.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Vollum Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1325670" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adrenal Cortex/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Blotting, Northern ; Cloning, Molecular ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; Humans ; Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormones/physiology ; Melanocytes/metabolism ; Mice ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis ; Receptors, Corticotropin ; Receptors, Pituitary Hormone/biosynthesis/*genetics ; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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