Response of melanocortin-4 receptor-deficient mice to anorectic and orexigenic peptides

Nature Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 119-122

  Marsh, Donald J ^a   Hollopeter, Gunther ^a   Huszar, Dennis ^b   Laufer, Ralph ^c   Yagaloff, Keith A ^d   Fisher, Stewart L ^d   Burn, Paul ^d   Palmiter, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^c IRBM   (Italy)

^d Hoffman La Roche Department of Metabolic Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; APPETITE DEPRESSANTS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LEPTIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; OBESITY; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032900284     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/5070     Document Type: Article

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