Correction of the sterility defect in homozygous obese female mice by treatment with the human recombinant leptin

Nature Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 318-320

  Chehab, Farid F ^a   Lim, Mary E ^a   Lu, Ronghua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FEMALE STERILITY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE STERILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LEPTIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, OBESE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OBESITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0030010388     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0396-318     Document Type: Article

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