WAT-free mice: Diabetes without obesity

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3145-3148

  McKnight, Steven L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TROGLITAZONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADIPOCYTE; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; LIPODYSTROPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0032532147     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.20.3145     Document Type: Review

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