Agouti/melanocortin interactions with leptin pathways in obesity

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 271-274

  Zemel, Michael B ^a   Xue, Bingzhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; LEPTIN; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR;

ADIPOCYTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPERPHAGIA; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPOLYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; RECEPTOR BINDING; SHORT SURVEY;

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031663926     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1998.tb01764.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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