Obesity, eating disorders and restrained eating: Is leptin the missing link?

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 377-380

  Mantzoros, C S ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; PROTEIN;

ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; EATING DISORDER; HUMAN; METABOLISM; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANOREXIA; BULIMIA; EATING DISORDERS; HUMANS; LEPTIN; OBESITY; PROTEINS;

EID: 0031228090     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4000323     Document Type: Article

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