Estrogen increases in vivo leptin production in rats and human subjects

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 285-292

  Shimizu, H ^a   Shimomura, Y ^b   Nakanishi, Y ^b   Futawatari, T ^b   Ohtani, K ^a   Sato, N ^a   Mori, M ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA PREFECTURAL COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; LEPTIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MENOPAUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

EID: 0030811942     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1540285     Document Type: Article

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