Increased leptin production in vivo and insulin cleavage by the omental adipose tissue of morbidly obese patients

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-185

  Cuatrecasas, G ^b   Granada, M L ^b   Formiguera, X ^b   Rull, M ^b   Alastrue A ^b   Remesar, X ^a   Alemany, M ^a   Foz, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; LEPTIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN DEGRADATION; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; OBESITY; OMENTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION;

EID: 0031888394     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.3711212.x     Document Type: Article

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