Long-term regulation of leptin expression is correlated with adipocyte number in obese rats

Clinical and Investigative Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 54-62

  Shillabeer, Gillian ^a   Vydelingum, Soopayah ^c   Hatch, Gary ^b   Russell, James C ^d   Lau, David C W ^a  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b Loeb Research Institute

^c Rhone Poulenc Group   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0031967343     PISSN: 0147958X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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