Gastroenterology
Volume 123, Issue 4 , Pages 1120-1128 , October 2002

The role of the gastric afferent vagal nerve in ghrelin-induced feeding and growth hormone secretion in rats

  • Yukari Date

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Miyazaki Medical College, Miyazaki
    • National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka
    • ,
  • Noboru Murakami

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterinary Physiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Miyazaki University, Miyazaki
    • ,
  • Koji Toshinai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Miyazaki Medical College, Miyazaki
    • ,
  • Shigeru Matsukura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Miyazaki Medical College, Miyazaki
    • ,
  • Akira Niijima

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata, Japan
    • ,
  • Hisayuki Matsuo

      Affiliations

    • National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka
    • ,
  • Kenji Kangawa

      Affiliations

    • National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka
    • ,
  • Masamitsu Nakazato

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Miyazaki Medical College, Miyazaki

Received 6 May 2002 ,Accepted 13 June 2002.

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☆ Address requests for reprints to: Masamitsu Nakazato, M.D., Ph.D., Third Department of Internal Medicine, Miyazaki Medical College, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, 889-1692, Japan. e-mail: nakazato@post.miyazaki-med.ac.jp; fax: (81) 985-85-7902.

☆☆ Supported in part by grants in aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan, and the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Japan (to M.N.).

PII: S0016-5085(02)00217-2

doi: 10.1053/gast.2002.35954

Gastroenterology
Volume 123, Issue 4 , Pages 1120-1128 , October 2002

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