Metabolism - Clinical and Experimental
Volume 44, Issue 8 , Pages 972-975 , August 1995

Neurotensin decreases with fasting in the ventromedian nucleus of obese Zucker rats

Received 6 April 1994 ,Accepted 3 December 1994.

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