Gareth Leng

Research.com Recognitions

• 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Best Publications

• GH-deficient dw/dw rats and lit/lit mice show increased Fos expression in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus following systemic injection of GH-releasing peptide-6.

  S L Dickson;O Doutrelant-Viltart;G Leng

  1847
  Citations

• Dendritic peptide release and peptide-dependent behaviours

  Mike Ludwig;Gareth Leng

  1070
  Citations

• Intranasal Oxytocin: Myths and Delusions

  Gareth Leng;Mike Ludwig

  654
  Citations

• “Eating addiction”, rather than “food addiction”, better captures addictive-like eating behavior

  Johannes Hebebrand;Özgür Albayrak;Roger Adan;Jochen Antel

  599
  Citations

• Intracellular calcium stores regulate activity-dependent neuropeptide release from dendrites

  Mike Ludwig;Nancy Sabatier;Philip M Bull;Rainer Landgraf

  389
  Citations

• Physiological Pathways Regulating the Activity of Magnocellular Neurosecretory Cells

  Gareth Leng;Colin H Brown;John A Russell

  381
  Citations

• The determinants of food choice

  Gareth Leng;Roger A H Adan;Michele Belot;Jeffrey M Brunstrom

  372
  Citations

• Up-regulation of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) gene expression together with NOS activity in the rat hypothalamo-hypophysial system after chronic salt loading: evidence of a neuromodulatory role of nitric oxide in arginine vasopressin and oxytocin secretion.

  K Kadowaki;J Kishimoto;G Leng;P C Emson

  362
  Citations

• The magnocellular oxytocin system, the fount of maternity: adaptations in pregnancy.

  John A Russell;Gareth Leng;Alison J Douglas

  322
  Citations

• Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone stimulates oxytocin release from the dendrites of hypothalamic neurons while inhibiting oxytocin release from their terminals in the neurohypophysis.

  Nancy Sabatier;Céline Caquineau;Govindan Dayanithi;Philip Bull

  298
  Citations

• Endogenous opiates regulate oxytocin but not vasopressin secretion from the neurohypophysis

  R. J. Bicknell;G. Leng

  265
  Citations

• Measuring Oxytocin and Vasopressin: Bioassays, Immunoassays and Random Numbers.

  Gareth Leng;Nancy Sabatier

  258
  Citations

• Systemic administration of growth hormone-releasing peptide activates hypothalamic arcuate neurons

  S.L. Dickson;G. Leng;I.C.A.F. Robinson

  245
  Citations

• Social touch promotes interfemale communication via activation of parvocellular oxytocin neurons

  Yan Tang;Yan Tang;Diego Benusiglio;Arthur Lefevre;Arthur Lefevre;Louis Hilfiger

  239
  Citations

• An intrinsic vasopressin system in the olfactory bulb is involved in social recognition.

  Vicky A. Tobin;Hirofumi Hashimoto;Douglas W. Wacker;Yuki Takayanagi

  239
  Citations

• Neurotransmitters and peptides: whispered secrets and public announcements

  Gareth Leng;Mike Ludwig

  223
  Citations

• Induction of c-fos expression in hypothalamic magnocellular neurons requires synaptic activation and not simply increased spike activity

  Simon M. Luckman;Richard E J Dyball;Gareth Leng

  207
  Citations

• Autoinhibition of Supraoptic Nucleus Vasopressin Neurons In Vivo: A Combined Retrodialysis/Electrophysiological Study in Rats

  Mike Ludwig;Gareth Leng

  206
  Citations

• Somatostatin receptor subtype 2 knockout mice are refractory to growth hormone-negative feedback on arcuate neurons.

  Hui Zheng;Alex Bailey;Ming-Hao Jiang;Kazufumi Honda

  198
  Citations

• Oxytocin and the maternal brain

  Gareth Leng;Simone L Meddle;Alison J Douglas

  193
  Citations

• Sex, parturition and motherhood without oxytocin?

  JA Russell;G Leng

  189
  Citations