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Neuroscience

D-Index
59
Citations
16534
World Ranking
3949
National Ranking
1792

Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Best Publications

  • Expression of ghrelin receptor mRNA in the rat and the mouse brain.

    Jeffrey M. Zigman;Juli E. Jones;Charlotte E. Lee;Clifford B. Saper

  • Leptin Directly Activates SF1 Neurons in the VMH, and This Action by Leptin Is Required for Normal Body-Weight Homeostasis

    Harveen Dhillon;Jeffrey M. Zigman;Chianping Ye;Charlotte E. Lee

  • Ghrelin

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  • The orexigenic hormone ghrelin defends against depressive symptoms of chronic stress

    Michael Lutter;Ichiro Sakata;Sherri Osborne-Lawrence;Sherry A. Rovinsky

  • Mice lacking ghrelin receptors resist the development of diet-induced obesity

    Jeffrey M. Zigman;Yoshihide Nakano;Roberto Coppari;Nina Balthasar

  • Serotonin reciprocally regulates melanocortin neurons to modulate food intake.

    Lora K Heisler;Erin E Jobst;Erin E Jobst;Gregory M Sutton;Ligang Zhou

  • Minireview: From anorexia to obesity--the yin and yang of body weight control.

    Jeffrey M. Zigman;Joel K. Elmquist

  • Synaptic glutamate release by ventromedial hypothalamic neurons is part of the neurocircuitry that prevents hypoglycemia.

    Qingchun Tong;ChianPing Ye;Rory J. McCrimmon;Harveen Dhillon

  • Ghrelin increases the rewarding value of high-fat diet in an orexin-dependent manner.

    Mario Perello;Ichiro Sakata;Shari G Birnbaum;Jen Chieh Chuang

  • Direct Insulin and Leptin Action on Pro-opiomelanocortin Neurons Is Required for Normal Glucose Homeostasis and Fertility

    Jennifer W. Hill;Carol F. Elias;Makoto Fukuda;Kevin W. Williams

  • Ghrelin mediates stress-induced food-reward behavior in mice

    Jen Chieh Chuang;Mario Perello;Ichiro Sakata;Sherri Osborne-Lawrence

  • Leptin's effect on puberty in mice is relayed by the ventral premammillary nucleus and does not require signaling in Kiss1 neurons.

    José Donato Jr.;José Donato Jr.;Roberta Mascioli Cravo;Renata Frazão;Laurent Gautron

  • 5-HT2CRs expressed by pro-opiomelanocortin neurons regulate energy homeostasis.

    Yong Xu;Juli E. Jones;Daisuke Kohno;Kevin W. Williams

  • Characterization of Kiss1 neurons using transgenic mouse models

    Roberta M. Cravo;Lisandra O. Margatho;Lisandra O. Margatho;Sherri Osborne-Lawrence;José Donato

  • A major lineage of enteroendocrine cells coexpress CCK, secretin, GIP, GLP-1, PYY, and neurotensin but not somatostatin

    Kristoffer L. Egerod;Maja S. Engelstoft;Kaare V. Grunddal;Mark K. Nøhr

  • Seven transmembrane G protein-coupled receptor repertoire of gastric ghrelin cells

    Maja S Engelstoft;Won-Mee Park;Ichiro Sakata;Line V Kristensen

  • Ghrelin Promotes and Protects Nigrostriatal Dopamine Function via a UCP2-Dependent Mitochondrial Mechanism

    Zane Bruce Andrews;Derek Erion;Rudolph Beiler;Zhong-Wu Liu

  • Estradiol-Dependent Decrease in the Orexigenic Potency of Ghrelin in Female Rats

    Deborah J. Clegg;Lynda M. Brown;Jeffrey M. Zigman;Christopher J. Kemp

  • Arcuate AgRP neurons mediate orexigenic and glucoregulatory actions of ghrelin

    Qian Wang;Chen Liu;Aki Uchida;Jen Chieh Chuang

  • High-fat feeding promotes obesity via insulin receptor/PI3K-dependent inhibition of SF-1 VMH neurons

    Tim Klöckener;Simon Hess;Bengt F. Belgardt;Lars Paeger

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