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The role of ghrelin in reward-based eating.
Perelló M, Zigman JM Biol. Psychiatry 2012 Sep 72 5 347-53
Glucose-mediated control of ghrelin release from primary cultures of gastric mucosal cells.
Sakata I, Park WM, Walker AK, Piper PK, Chuang JC, Osborne-Lawrence S, Zigman JM Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 2012 May 302 10 E1300-10
Proton- and ammonium-sensing by histaminergic neurons controlling wakefulness.
Yanovsky Y, Zigman JM, Kernder A, Bein A, Sakata I, Osborne-Lawrence S, Haas HL, Sergeeva OA Front Syst Neurosci 2012 6 23
Hindbrain ghrelin receptor signaling is sufficient to maintain fasting glucose.
Scott MM, Perello M, Chuang JC, Sakata I, Gautron L, Lee CE, Lauzon D, Elmquist JK, Zigman JM PLoS ONE 2012 7 8 e44089
Ghrelin indirectly activates hypophysiotropic CRF neurons in rodents.
Cabral A, Suescun O, Zigman JM, Perello M PLoS ONE 2012 7 2 e31462
A Role for ?FosB in Calorie Restriction-Induced Metabolic Changes.
Vialou V, Cui H, Perello M, Mahgoub M, Yu HG, Rush AJ, Pranav H, Jung S, Yangisawa M, Zigman JM, Elmquist JK, Nestler EJ, Lutter M Biol. Psychiatry 2011 Jul 70 2 204-7
Functional implications of limited leptin receptor and ghrelin receptor co-expression in the brain.
Perello M, Scott MM, Sakata I, Lee CE, Chuang JC, Osborne-Lawrence S, Rovinsky SA, Elmquist JK, Zigman JM The Journal of comparative neurology 2011 Jun
Donato J, Cravo RM, Frazão R, Gautron L, Scott MM, Lachey J, Castro IA, Margatho LO, Lee S, Lee C, Richardson JA, Friedman J, Chua S, Coppari R, Zigman JM, Elmquist JK, Elias CF J. Clin. Invest. 2011 Jan 121 1 355-68
Characterization of Kiss1 neurons using transgenic mouse models.
Cravo RM, Margatho LO, Osborne-Lawrence S, Donato J, Atkin S, Bookout AL, Rovinsky S, Frazão R, Lee CE, Gautron L, Zigman JM, Elias CF Neuroscience 2011 Jan 173 37-56
Klöckener T, Hess S, Belgardt BF, Paeger L, Verhagen LA, Husch A, Sohn JW, Hampel B, Dhillon H, Zigman JM, Lowell BB, Williams KW, Elmquist JK, Horvath TL, Kloppenburg P, Brüning JC Nat. Neurosci. 2011 14 7 911-8