Acute High Fat Diet Consumption Activates the Mesolimbic Circuit and Requires Orexin Signaling in a Mouse Model [PDF]
, 2014 Overconsumption of palatable energy-dense foods has negative health implications and it is associated with obesity andseveral eating disorders. Currently, little is known about the neuronal circuitries activated by the acute ingestion of arewarding ...
Patrone, Anabela +3 more
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Integrative Physiology of Orexins and Orexin Receptors
CNS & Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets, 2009 Recent studies have established that the orexin system is a critical regulator of sleep/wake states. Deficiency of orexin signaling results in the sleep disorder narcolepsy-cataplexy in humans, dogs, and rodents. These findings have brought about the possibility of novel therapies for sleep disorders including narcolepsy-cataplexy.
Michihiro, Mieda, Takeshi, Sakurai
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Genes and primary headaches: discovering new potential therapeutic targets [PDF]
, 2013 Genetic studies have clearly shown that primary headaches (migraine, tension-type headache and cluster headache) are multifactorial disorders characterized by a complex interaction between different genes and environmental factors.
De Martino, Paola +8 more
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Orexin, orexin receptor antagonists and central cardiovascular control [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2013 Orexin makes an important contribution to the regulation of cardiovascular function. When injected centrally under anesthesia, orexin increases blood pressure, heart rate and sympathetic nerve activity. This is consistent with the location of orexin neurons in the hypothalamus and the distribution of orexin terminals in the central autonomic network ...
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Inhibition of Food Intake by PACAP in the Hypothalamic Ventromedial Nuclei is Mediated by NMDA Receptors [PDF]
, 2014 Central injections of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) into the ventromedial nuclei (VMN) of the hypothalamus produce hypophagia that is dependent upon the PAC1 receptor; however, the signaling downstream of this receptor in the
Choi, Sujean +3 more
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Stapled truncated orexin peptides as orexin receptor agonists
Peptides, 2018 The peptides orexin-A and -B, the endogenous agonists of the orexin receptors, have similar 19-amino-acid C-termini which retain full maximum response as truncated peptides with only marginally reduced potency, while further N-terminal truncations successively reduce the activity.
Karhu, L +7 more
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Expression and potential role of the peptide orexin-A in prostate cancer [PDF]
, 2015 The peptides orexin-A and orexin-B and their G protein-coupled OX1 and OX2 receptors are involved in multiple physiological processes in the central nervous system and peripheral organs.
ASSISI, LOREDANA +11 more
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Synaptic interactions between perifornical lateral hypothalamic area, locus coeruleus nucleus and the oral pontine reticular nucleus are implicated in the stage succession during sleep-wakefulness cycle [PDF]
, 2013 This Document is Protected by copyright and was first published by Frontiers. All rights reserved. it is reproduced with permissionThe perifornical area in the posterior lateral hypothalamus (PeFLH) has been implicated in several physiological functions ...
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Mice in ecstasy : advanced animal models in the study of MDMA [PDF]
, 2010 The party drug 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine -better known as MDMA or ecstasy- has numerous effects on the human body, characterized by a rush of energy, euphoria and empathy.
Stove, Christophe +3 more
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Phylogenomic analysis reveals extensive phylogenetic mosaicism in the Human GPCR Superfamily [PDF]
, 2007 A novel high throughput phylogenomic analysis (HTP) was applied to the rhodopsin G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) family. Instances of phylogenetic mosaicism between receptors were found to be frequent, often as instances of correlated mosaicism and ...
Allaby, Robin G., Woodwark, Mathew
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