Chronic leptin treatment does not prevent the development of obesity in transgenic mice with brown fat deficiency

Diabetologia

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 810-815

  Hamann, A ^a,c   Busing B ^a   Rausch, C ^a   Ertl, J ^b   Preibisch, G ^b   Greten, H ^a   Matthaei, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b SANOFI   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brown fat; Hyperphagia; Insulin resistance; Leptin; Leptin resistance; Obesity; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FOOD INTAKE; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERPHAGIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHOLESTEROL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MICE; MICE, OBESE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OBESITY; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 0030876056     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001250050753     Document Type: Article

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