Gestational profile of leptin messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) content in the placenta and adipose tissue in the rat, and regulation of the mRNA levels of the leptin receptor subtypes in the hypothalamus during pregnancy and lactation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 698-703

  García, María Del Carmen ^a   Casanueva, Felipe F ^a   Diéguez, Carlos ^a   Señarĩs, Rosa María ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RESISTANCE; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; LACTATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033999453     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod62.3.698     Document Type: Article

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