Table 1.

Quantitative real‐time PCR analysis of hypothalamic agouti‐related peptide (AgRP), neuropeptide Y (NPY), and proopiomelanocortin (POMC) mRNA expression of 6‐month‐old Snell or GHR^−/− female mice tested after 18 h of fasting (n = 8/group). Ratios are shown as mutant/control, with values < 0 indicating mRNAs expressed at lower levels in the mutants

DW/WT	DW effect (gene expression)
	NPY	POMC	AgRP
Snell dwarf	0.5a	0.17b	0.13b
GHRKO	0.11a	0.1a	0.16a

^a P < 0.05.

^b P < 0.0001.