Cloning the chicken leptin gene

Gene

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 239-242

  Taouis, Mohammed ^a   Chen, Jin Wen ^a   Daviaud, Christian ^a   Dupont, Joelle ^a   Derouet, Michel ^a   Simon, Jean ^a  

^a STATION DE RECHERCHES AVICOLES   (France)

Author keywords

Adipose tissue; Expression; Leptin; Lipogenesis; Liver

Indexed keywords

DNA; LEPTIN; PRIMER DNA;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LEPTIN; LIVER; MALE; MAMMALS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032570602     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00670-7     Document Type: Article

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