Locus Coeruleus Is Involved in Weight Loss in a Rat Model of Parkinson's Disease: An Effect Reversed by Deep Brain Stimulation

Introduction: In Parkinson's disease (PD) weight loss is a secondary phenomenon to the progressive neurodegeneration that changes after deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (DBS-STN) leading to increased weight gain. The mechanism responsible for this profile in weight variation ma...

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Main Authors: Joana Guimarães, Eduardo Moura, Elisabete Silva, Paulo Aguiar, Carolina Garrett, Maria Augusta Vieira-Coelho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-11-01
Series:Brain Stimulation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1935861X13001708