Mice lacking melanin-concentrating hormone are hypophagic and lean

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6712, 1998, Pages 670-679

  Shimada, Masako ^a   Tritos, Nicholas A ^b   Lowell, Bradford B ^a   Flier, Jeffrey S ^a   Maratos Flier, Eleftheria ^c  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DIET RESTRICTION; FEEDING; FOOD INTAKE; GENE DELETION; HYPOPHAGIA; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; EATING; ENERGY INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE DELETION; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEPTIN; MELANINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROPEPTIDES; PITUITARY HORMONES; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELLS; THINNESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032542294     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25341     Document Type: Article

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