Effect of the genetic background on the reproduction of leptin-deficient obese mice

Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 732-738

  Ewart Toland, Amanda ^a   Mounzih, Khalid ^a   Qiu, Jun ^a   Chehab, Farid F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; INFERTILITY; LIFESTYLE; MORBID OBESITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0032931966     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.2.6470     Document Type: Article

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