Title : Nicotine excites hypothalamic arcuate anorexigenic proopiomelanocortin neurons and orexigenic neuropeptide Y neurons: similarities and differences.

Pub. Date : 2011 Sep

PMID : 21653710






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1 However, in control experiments nicotine also excited the orexigenic arcuate nucleus neuropeptide Y (NPY) cells. Nicotine neuropeptide Y Homo sapiens
2 However, in control experiments nicotine also excited the orexigenic arcuate nucleus neuropeptide Y (NPY) cells. Nicotine neuropeptide Y Homo sapiens
3 Nicotine exerted similar actions on POMC and NPY cells, with a slightly greater depolarizing action on POMC cells. Nicotine neuropeptide Y Homo sapiens
4 Nicotine inhibited excitatory synaptic activity recorded in NPY, but not POMC, cells. Nicotine neuropeptide Y Homo sapiens
5 Together, these results indicate that nicotine has a number of similar actions, but also a few different actions, on POMC and NPY neurons that could contribute to the weight loss associated with smoking. Nicotine neuropeptide Y Homo sapiens