Franco Barrile

N-Terminal Liver-Expressed Antimicrobial Peptide 2 (LEAP2) Region Exhibits Inverse Agonist Activity toward the Ghrelin Receptor

Céline M’Kadmi, Agustina Cabral, Franco Barrile et al. · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry · 2018 · 179 citations · Full text

Neuropeptides, Signal Transduction, Growth Hormone +15

Ghrelin Recruits Specific Subsets of Dopamine and GABA Neurons of Different Ventral Tegmental Area Sub-nuclei

María Paula Cornejo, Franco Barrile, Pablo N. De Francesco et al. · Neuroscience · 2018 · 59 citations · Full text

Neurobiological Mechanism, Neurophysiology, Neuroanatomy +12

Development of a novel fluorescent ligand of growth hormone secretagogue receptor based on the N-Terminal Leap2 region

Franco Barrile, Céline M’Kadmi, Pablo N. De Francesco et al. · Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology · 2019 · 44 citations · Full text

Signal Transduction, Developmental Biology, Growth Hormone +14

Ghrelin-induced Food Intake, but not GH Secretion, Requires the Expression of the GH Receptor in the Brain of Male Mice

Frederick Wasinski, Franco Barrile, João A.B. Pedroso et al. · Endocrinology · 2021 · 27 citations · Full text

Growth hormone secretagogue receptor in dopamine neurons controls appetitive and consummatory behaviors towards high-fat diet in ad-libitum fed mice

María Paula Cornejo, Franco Barrile, Daniela Cassano et al. · Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2020 · 22 citations

Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, Nutrition +15