The role of the hypothalamic melanocortin system in behavioral appetitive processes

Targeted Disruption of the Melanocortin-4 Receptor Results in Obesity in Mice

1997 • 2,992 citations

Role of melanocortinergic neurons in feeding and the agouti obesity syndrome

1997 • 1,891 citations

Antagonism of Central Melanocortin Receptors in Vitro and in Vivo by Agouti-Related Protein

1997 • 1,835 citations

Motivational control of goal-directed action

1994 • 980 citations

Leptin Increases Hypothalamic Pro-opiomelanocortin mRNA Expression in the Rostral Arcuate Nucleus

1997 • 837 citations

Proopiomelanocortin Neurons Are Direct Targets for Leptin in the Hypothalamus

1997 • 731 citations

Response of melanocortin–4 receptor–deficient mice to anorectic and orexigenic peptides

1999 • 549 citations

Hypothalamic Pro-Opiomelanocortin mRNA Is Reduced By Fasting in ob/ob and db/db Mice, but Is Stimulated by Leptin

1998 • 518 citations

Learning and Behavior Therapy

1997 • 320 citations

Long-term orexigenic effects of AgRP-(83—132) involve mechanisms other than melanocortin receptor blockade

2000 • 318 citations

Brainstem Application of Melanocortin Receptor Ligands Produces Long-Lasting Effects on Feeding and Body Weight

1998 • 279 citations

Proopiomelanocortin Neurons Are Direct Targets for Leptin in the Hypothalamus

1997 • 226 citations

ART (Protein Product of Agouti-Related Transcript) as an Antagonist of MC-3 and MC-4 Receptors

1997 • 217 citations

Leptin increases hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin mRNA expression in the rostral arcuate nucleus

1997 • 206 citations

Neural and Metabolic Control of Macronutrient Intake

1999 • 179 citations

Central infusion of melanocortin agonist MTII in rats: assessment of c-Fos expression and taste aversion

1998 • 179 citations

Instrumental performance following a shift in primary motivation depends on incentive learning.

1992 • 175 citations

Neural and Metabolic Control of Macronutrient Intake

1999 • 170 citations

Acetylation alters the feeding response to MSH and beta-endorphin

1989 • 163 citations

Hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin mRNA is reduced by fasting and [corrected] in ob/ob and db/db mice, but is stimulated by leptin

1998 • 133 citations

Differential effects of melanocortin peptides on neural melanocortin receptors.

1994 • 127 citations

The nature and function of interoceptive signals to feed: Toward integration of physiological and learning perspectives.

1993 • 94 citations

Role of cholecystokinin in the motivational control of instrumental action in rats.

1994 • 31 citations

Encoding and selective activation of "metabolic memories" in the rat.

1997 • 29 citations

Role of cholecystokinin in the motivational control of instrumental action in rats.

1994 • 29 citations

Encoding and selective activation of "metabolic memories" in the rat.

1997 • 28 citations

Discriminative cues produced by NPY do not generalize to the interoceptive cues produced by food deprivation

1995 • 17 citations

Cholecystokinin attenuates incentive learning in rats.

1995 • 15 citations

Cholecystokinin attenuates incentive learning in rats.

1995 • 15 citations

Lesions of the amygdala central nucleus interfere with blockade of satiation for peanut oil by Na-2-mercaptoacetate

2000 • 6 citations