The effect of leptin is enhanced by microinjection into the ventromedial hypothalamus

Diabetes

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 150-152

  Jacob, Ralph J ^a   Dziura, James ^a   Medwick, Matthew B ^a   Leone, Paola ^a   Caprio, Sonia ^a   During, Matthew ^a   Shulman, Gerald I ^a   Sherwin, Robert S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN REGION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; FOOD INTAKE; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SATIETY;

EID: 0031036144     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diab.46.1.150     Document Type: Article

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