ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology2018
Control of appetite, blood glucose, and blood pressure during melanocortin-4 receptor activation in normoglycemic and diabetic NPY-deficient mice.
Article in American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Cardiometabolic regulation by adipocyte-derived leptin and the brain melanocortin system.Clinical science (London, England : 1979) · 2026Review
- CNS Regulation of Glucose Homeostasis: Role of the Leptin-Melanocortin System.Current diabetes reports · 2020Review
- Leptin's hunger-suppressing effects are mediated by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis in rodents.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Interrogating the central melanocortin system: choosing the "right" model.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Although central melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) blockade abolishes the central nervous system (CNS)-mediated anorexogenic, antidiabetic, and cardiovascular actions of leptin, chronic MC4R stimulation fails to completely mimic the effects of leptin. Because neuropeptide Y (NPY) and MC4R exert opposite effects on cardiovascular and metabolic functions, we tested the role of NPY in offsetting the long-term actions of MC4R activation. Wild-type (WT) and NPY-deficient (NPY
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