FOOD INTAKE REGULATING-NEUROPEPTIDES ARE EXPRESSED AND REGULATED THROUGH PREGNANCY AND FOLLOWING FOOD RESTRICTION IN RAT PLACENTA

Food intake regulating-neuropeptides are expressed and regulated through pregnancy and following food restriction in rat placenta

Abstract Background Neuropeptide Y (NPY), agouti related peptide (AgRP), copyright and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) and melanocortins, the products of the proopiomelanocortin (POMC), are hypothalamic peptides MOISTURE KICK RECHARGER involved in feeding regulation and energy homeostasis.Recent evidence has demonstrated their expression in

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In situ hybridization of somatolactin transcripts in the pituitary glands from acclimatized carp (Cyprinus carpio)

We isolated and cloned a carp somatolactin SL DNA fragment, of which 78% of the nucleotides were identical to the corresponding salmon SL sequence.The results obtained upon Tray Northern blot hybridization of carp pituitary RNA allowed the identification of two transcripts as described for other fish.When the content of SL transcripts in pituitary

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On local democracies in the Colombian Pacific and their incidence in public policy regarding potable water during the period 2008-2011

Using bassinette sheet a generalized ordered probit model, we offer statistical evidence in favor of the political economy thesis.This thesis states that government parties in power group-led precarious democracies, in which drug trafficking and clientelism are allies and seek to co-opt government at the local level, systematically undermine the qu

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