Transgenic mice lacking white fat: Models for understanding human lipoatrophic diabetes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 892, Issue , 1999, Pages 289-296

  Reitman, Marc L ^a   Mason, Mark M ^a   Moitra, Jaideep ^b   Gavrilova, Oksana ^a   Marcus Samuels, Bernice ^a   Eckhaus, Michael ^c   Vinson, Charles ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPOATROPHIC DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; MOUSE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; SYNDROME X; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

EID: 0032763207     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07802.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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