Heterozygosity for Lep(ob) or Lepr(db) affects body composition and leptin homeostasis in adult mice

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 274, Issue 4 43-4, 1998, Pages

  Chung, Wendy K ^a   Belfi, Kristen ^a   Chua, Melvin ^a   Wiley, Jennifer ^a   Mackintosh, Ronald ^a   Nicolson, Margery ^b   Boozer, Carol N ^c   Leibel, Rudolph L ^a,d  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AMGEN INC   (United States)

^d Box 181 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Fat mass; Leptin receptor; Obesity

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0031980203     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.274.4.r985     Document Type: Article

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