Title : Central manipulation of dopamine receptors attenuates the orexigenic action of ghrelin.

Pub. Date : 2013 Sep

PMID : 23624808






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1 OBJECTIVE: Recent evidence suggests that ghrelin, a peptidic hormone stimulating food intake, interacts with the dopamine signaling. Dopamine ghrelin and obestatin prepropeptide Rattus norvegicus
2 Ghrelin increases dopamine levels in the shell of the nucleus accumbens stimulating food intake, while ablation of the ghrelin receptor attenuates the hypophagia caused by the activation of dopamine receptor 2. Dopamine ghrelin and obestatin prepropeptide Rattus norvegicus