Leptin modulates the T-cell immune response and reverses starvation- induced immunosuppression

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6696, 1998, Pages 897-901

  Lord, Graham M ^a   Matarese, Giuseppe ^a,c   Howard, Jane K ^b   Baker, Richard J ^a   Bloom, Stephen R ^b   Lechler, Robert I ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ADIPOCYTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MEMORY CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; LEPTIN; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, OBESE; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, CYTOKINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STARVATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0032572722     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29795     Document Type: Article

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