A vertebrate model of extreme physiological regulation

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6703, 1998, Pages 659-662

  Secor, Stephen M ^a   Diamond, Jared ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

BODY MASS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; METABOLIC RATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SNAKE; TISSUE GROWTH; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BOIDAE; EATING; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

CEPHALOPODA; MAMMALIA; PYTHONIDAE; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032531762     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/27131     Document Type: Review

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