Food intake regulating-neuropeptides are expressed and regulated through pregnancy and following food restriction in rat placenta
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| Title: | Food intake regulating-neuropeptides are expressed and regulated through pregnancy and following food restriction in rat placenta |
| Author: | Caminos, Jorge E. Bravo López, Susana Belén González Dieguez, Carmen Ruth Garcés, Maria F. Cepeda, Libia A. González, Adriana C. Codido, Fernando López Pérez, Miguel Antonio Diéguez González, Carlos |
| Affiliation: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Fisioloxía |
| Subject: | Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction | Food Restriction | POMC Expression | Chronic Food Restriction | Agouti Related Peptide | |
| Date of Issue: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | BMC |
| Citation: | Caminos, J.E., Bravo, S.B., González, C.R. et al. Food intake regulating-neuropeptides are expressed and regulated through pregnancy and following food restriction in rat placenta. Reprod Biol Endocrinol 6, 14 (2008) |
| Abstract: | Background Neuropeptide Y (NPY), agouti related peptide (AgRP), cocaine and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) and melanocortins, the products of the proopiomelanocortin (POMC), are hypothalamic peptides involved in feeding regulation and energy homeostasis. Recent evidence has demonstrated their expression in rat and human placenta. Methods In the current study, we have investigated the expression of those neuropeptides in the rat placenta by real-time PCR using a model of maternal food restriction. Results Our results showed that placental-derived neuropeptides were regulated through pregnancy and following food restriction. Conclusion These data could indicate that placental-derived neuropeptides represent a local regulatory circuit that may fine-tune control of energy balance during pregnancy |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7827-6-14 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22884 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1477-7827-6-14 |
| ISSN: | 1477-7827 |
| Rights: | © 2008 Caminos et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited |
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