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Sex differences in basal hypothalamic anorectic and orexigenic gene expression and the effect of quantitative and qualitative food restriction

BACKGROUND: Research into energy balance and growth has infrequently considered genetic sex, yet there is sexual dimorphism for growth across the animal kingdom. We test the hypothesis that in the chicken, there is a sex difference in arcuate nucleus neuropeptide gene expression, since previous rese...

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Autores principales: Caughey, S. D., Wilson, P. W., Mukhtar, N., Brocklehurst, S., Reid, A., D’Eath, R. B., Boswell, T., Dunn, I. C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5975468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29843787
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13293-018-0178-6