Symposium on 'nutrition and diabetes'. Food, obesity and non-insulin-dependent diabetes: Are there molecular links?

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 889-898

  Prins, Johannes B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR; LEPTIN; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

FOOD; HUMAN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; REVIEW;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FOOD; HUMANS; LEPTIN; OBESITY; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0031265720     PISSN: 00296651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/pns19970096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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