Ghrl cDNA ORF clone, Rattus norvegicus(Norway rat)

Ghrelin Attenuates Retinal Neuronal Autophagy and Apoptosis in an Experimental Rat Glaucoma Model.
Zhu K, Zhang ML, Liu ST, Li XY, Zhong SM, Li F, Xu GZ, Wang Z, Miao Y
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science58(14)6113-6122(2017 Dec)

Data suggest that changes in obestatin, GPR39, and ghrelin may contribute to metabolic abnormalities in T1DM, T2DM, and obesity.
Title: Changes in obestatin gene and GPR39 receptor expression in peripheral tissues of rat models of obesity, type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

These findings have implications for how females may respond to stress throughout life, suggesting the way ghrelin modifies the stress response at the level of the pituitary may be less efficient in the neonatally overfed.
Title: Neonatal overfeeding disrupts pituitary ghrelin signalling in female rats long-term; Implications for the stress response.

These results provide new insights into the mechanism by which ghrelin regulates voluntary activity independent of arcuate nucleus neurons.
Title: Intracerebroventricular injection of ghrelin decreases wheel running activity in rats.

Up-regulation of miR-21 by ghrelin ameliorates ischemia/reperfusion-induced acute kidney injury by inhibiting inflammation and cell apoptosis.
Title: Upregulation of miR-21 by Ghrelin Ameliorates Ischemia/Reperfusion-Induced Acute Kidney Injury by Inhibiting Inflammation and Cell Apoptosis.

study suggests that passive PNS rats have innate impairments in leptin and ghrelin responses to starvation combined with prenatal stress associated impairments in Agrp and orexin expression in response to starvation.
Title: Failure to upregulate Agrp and Orexin in response to activity based anorexia in weight loss vulnerable rats characterized by passive stress coping and prenatal stress experience.