Involvement of agouti-related protein, an endogenous antagonist of hypothalamic melanocortin receptor, in leptin action

Diabetes

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2028-2033

  Ebihara, Ken ^a   Ogawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Katsuura, Goro ^b   Numata, Yoshito ^b   Masuzaki, Hiroaki ^a   Satoh, Noriko ^a   Tamaki, Mikio ^b   Yoshioka, Takeshi ^b   Hayase, Minoru ^b   Matsuoka, Naoki ^a   Aizawa Abe, Megumi ^a   Yoshimasa, Yasunao ^a   Nakao, Kazuwa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHIONOGI AND CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; INTERMEDIN INHIBITING FACTOR; LEPTIN; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOWN REGULATION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FOOD INTAKE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HYPOTHALAMUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LEPTIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, OBESE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032872203     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.48.10.2028     Document Type: Article

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