The yellow mouse obesity syndrome and mechanisms of agouti-induced obesity

Obesity Research

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 506-514

  Moussa, Naïma Moustaïd ^a   Claycombe, Kate J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adipose tissue; Agouti; Hypothalamus; Leptin; Melanocortin receptor

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; INSULIN; INTERMEDIN; LEPTIN; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENETICS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTATION; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INSULIN; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LEPTIN; MELANOCYTE-STIMULATING HORMONES; MICE; MICE, OBESE; MUTATION; OBESITY; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNDROME;

EID: 0033191501     PISSN: 10717323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1550-8528.1999.tb00440.x     Document Type: Article

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