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E Badoer1, A Ryan

  • 1Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Monash University, 246 Clayton Rd., Clayton 3168, Melbourne, Australia. emilio9.badoer@med.monash.edu.au

Brain Research
|October 28, 1999
PubMed

The study examined whether intravenous (i.v.) leptin increased Fos-production in spinally projecting neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN). We combined (i) rhodamine tagged microspheres injected into the upper thoracic spinal cord and (ii) Fos (marker of neuronal activation) immunohistochemistry. Effects of recombinant murine leptin were compared to vehicle (containing lipopolysaccharide a contaminant present in the leptin solution). Following leptin, 10% of the spinally projecting neurons contained Fos. However, vehicle elicited similar effects and there was no significant difference between the groups.

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