Molecular cloning of rat obese cDNA and augmented gene expression in genetically obese Zucker fatty (fa/fa) rats

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 1647-1652

  Ogawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Masuzaki, Hiroaki ^a   Isse, Naohi ^a   Okazaki, Taku ^a   Mori, Kiyoshi ^a   Shigemoto, Michika ^a   Satoh, Noriko ^a   Tamura, Naohisa ^a   Hosoda, Kiminori ^a   Yoshimasa, Yasunao ^a   Jingami, Hisato ^a   Kawada, Teruo ^a   Nakao, Kazuwa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

adipocyte; brown adipose tissue; obesity; stromal vascular cell; white adipose tissue

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS FAT; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MESENTERY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OBESITY; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROPERITONEUM; STROMA CELL; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

EID: 0029086176     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI118204     Document Type: Article

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