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Orexin and its clinical applications

Original title: Orexina y sus aplicaciones en la Clínica.
  • Adriana Sánchez-García
    ,
  • Viviana Zomosa-Signoret
    ,
  • Rocío Ortiz-López
    ,
  • Román Vidaltamayo
  • Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon
    ,
  • Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
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Sustainable Development Goals

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Abstract

Orexins are peptide neurotransmitters that regulate arousal and motivated behaviors such as feeding and mating. Decreased levels of orexins ara causally correlated with narcolepsy and their synthetic agonists can be used to treat this disorder and induce wakefulness. Orexins also participate in regulating addictive behaviors and modulation of the orexinergic system could be useful as a pharmacological target for drug addiction and obesity treatment.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Review article Peer-review

Original language

Spanish

Article number

8545

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Ciencia UANL (Volume 22, Issue 93)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 30/01/2019

Publication status

Published - 30/01/2019

ISSN

2007-1175

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