Cocaine amphetamine related transcript (CART) is a neuropeptide first isolated and
sequenced from ovine hypothalamus and later shown to have functions related to drug�…

Animals can sense their changing internal needs and then generate specific physiological
and behavioural responses in order to restore homeostasis. Water-saline homeostasis�…

Hypothalamic melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) neurons participate in many
fundamental neuroendocrine processes. While some of their effects can be attributed to�…

Variations in water salinity and other extrinsic factors have been shown to induce changes in
feeding rhythms and growth in fish. However, it is unknown whether appetite-related�…

Cocaine-regulated and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) is a neuropeptide with
reported neuroprotective effects in ischemic cerebral injury. However, its mechanism has not�…

The default mode network (DMN) plays an outstanding role in psychiatric disorders. Still,
gene expressional changes in its major component, the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex�…

Background Epidemiologic studies show that cocaine-and amphetamine-regulated
transcript prepropeptide (CARTPT) gene polymorphism modifies diet-obesity relationships�…

Fish appetite is modulated in a complex manner by orexigenic hormones. To investigate
appetite regulation, the fasting response of appetite-related hormone genes in eight brain�…

Neurons produce and release neuropeptides to communicate with one another. Despite
their profound impact on critical brain functions, circuit-based mechanisms of peptidergic�…

Myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury (MIRI) is a common clinic scenario that occurs in the
context of reperfusion therapy for acute myocardial infarction. It has been shown that�…