Mahogany adds color to the evolving story of body weight regulation

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 374-375

  Schwartz, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN;

GENE CONTROL; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; GENE THERAPY; HAIR COLOR; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; OBESITY; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY HORMONE;

SWIETENIA;

EID: 0032958780     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/7365     Document Type: Short Survey

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