In rats, AP/NTS lesions attenuated but did not abolish the anorectic effect of a single salmon calcitonin injection.
In plain wordsIn rats, brain-region lesions weakened but did not abolish salmon calcitonin's food intake effect compared with sham lesions.
- Peptide
- Calcitonin-salmon
- Outcome
- DecreaseAnorectic effect after AP/NTS lesion
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
AP/NTS-lesioned and sham-lesioned rats- Comparator
- Sham-lesioned rats
- Outcome group
- Appetite and food intake · Metabolic and weight
- Studied dose
- 50 microg/kg · intraperitoneal · Single injectionAs given in this study (rat).
Source sentences
After single injection, the anorectic effect of high doses of amylin and sCT (50 microg/kg) was attenuated, but not abolished, in AP-X rats.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Further, we tested the role of the AP/NTS region in mediating the anorectic effects of high doses of amylin and its receptor agonist salmon calcitonin (sCT) after an acute single injection.
For the acute experiments, amylin or sCT was injected i.p. at doses of 0.5 (only sCT), 5 or 50 microg/kg.