Nonadipose tissue production of leptin: Leptin as a novel placenta- derived hormone in humans

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1029-1033

  Masuzaki, Hiroaki ^a   Ogawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Sagawa, Norimasa ^a   Hosoda, Kiminori ^a,b   Matsumoto, Tsunekazu ^a   Mise, Hiroko ^a   Nishimura, Haruo ^a   Yoshimasa, Yasunao ^a   Tanaka, Issei ^a   Mori, Takahide ^a   Nakao, Kazuwa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AMNION CELL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY BALANCE; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AMNION; AMNIOTIC FLUID; CHORIOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; LEPTIN; OBESITY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TROPHOBLASTS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030866843     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0997-1029     Document Type: Article

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