Obesity in the mouse model of pro-opiomelanocortin deficiency responds to peripheral melanocortin

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1066-1070

  Yaswen, Linda ^a,d   Diehl, Nicole ^a,e   Brennan, Miles B ^b   Hochgeschwender, Ute ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d Metamorphix Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; BETA ENDORPHIN; CORTICOTROPIN; INTERMEDIN; MELANOCORTIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX FUNCTION; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ALDOSTERONE; ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MICE; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTEINS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0032863468     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/12506     Document Type: Article

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