Leptin causes body weight loss in the absence of in viva activities typical of cytokines of the IL-6 family

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 275, Issue 3 44-3, 1998, Pages

  Agnello, Davide ^a   Meazza, Cristina ^a   Rowan, Christopher G ^b   Villa, Pia ^a   Ghezzi, Pietro ^a,c   Senaldi, Giorgio ^b  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b AMGEN INC   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Interleukin 1; Leukemia inhibitory factor; Peripheral blood cells; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEPTIN; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BODY WEIGHT; FOOD INTAKE; HEMATOPOIESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0031689072     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.275.3.r913     Document Type: Article

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