Targeted deletion of the Vgf gene indicates that the encoded secretory peptide precursor plays a novel role in the regulation of energy balance

Neuron

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 537-548

  Hahm, Seung ^f   Mizuno, Tooru M ^f   Wu, T John ^f   Wisor, Jonathan P ^b   Priest, Catherine A ^f   Kozak, Christine A ^d   Boozer, Carol N ^e   Peng, Bonnie ^c   McEvoy, Robert C ^a   Good, Paul ^f   Kelley, Kevin A ^f   Takahashi, Joseph S ^b   Pintar, John E ^c   Roberts, James L ^f   Mobbs, Charles V ^f   Salton, Stephen R J ^f  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Medicine   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e Columbia Univ Coll of Phys and S ^*  (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ENERGY BALANCE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; STARVATION; STEM CELL; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

EID: 0001398513     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80806-5     Document Type: Article

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