Leptin: The weight-reducing plasma protein encoded by the obese gene

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 91-93

  Wolf, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PLASMA PROTEIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APPETITE; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE MUTATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0029922555     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1996.tb03878.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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