Publication Date:
1979-01-05
Description:
Extracts of the cerebral cortes of genetically obese (ob/ob) mice with hyperphagia contain 0.05 +/- 0.02 microgram (mean +/- standard error) of cholecystokinin octapeptide equivalent per gram of wet weight compared to 0.15 +/- 0.01 microgram per gram for their nonobese littermates and 0.20 +/- 0.01 microgram per gram for normal LAF1 mice. These findings are suggestive of a causal relation between the diminished brain immunoreactive cholecystokinin content and the unrestrained appetite of the obese mice.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Straus, E -- Yalow, R S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1979 Jan 5;203(4375):68-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/758680" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Brain/*metabolism
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Cholecystokinin/*metabolism
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Mice
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Mice, Obese/*metabolism
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Satiation/physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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