From agouti to Pomc - 100 years of fat blonde mice

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 984-985

  Barsh, Greg ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; MELANOCORTIN; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOENGINEERING; HYPERPHAGIA; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032857322     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/12415     Document Type: Short Survey

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