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Tohoku J Exp Med
June 2012
Division of Aging and Geriatric Dentistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Japan.
The cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) is released from working skeletal muscles and reportedly plays key roles in their glucose homeostasis. However, it is unclear whether IL-6 plays such roles in the masseter muscle (MM), which is important in normal and pathological chewing behaviors, such as bruxism and/or prolonged clenching. When restrained (R+) in a narrow cylinder blocked at the front end with a thin plastic strip, a mouse gnaws away (G+) the strip to escape.
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April 1978
Mental Health Research Institute, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich 48109 U.S.A.
The behavioral effects of DCMB (2,3-dichloro-alpha-methylbenzylamine, Lilly), an inhibitor of brain phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PNMT; EC 2.1.1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMild-tail-pinch induces a syndrome of eating, gnawing and licking behavior in rats in the presence of food. Detailed behavioral, pharmacological and biochemical analyses of this phenomenon resulted in the following conclusions. (1) This is an unusually reliable phenomenon, demonstrable in each of more than 200 animals tested.
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