The long form of the leptin receptor (OB-Rh) is widely expressed in the human brain

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 187-195

  Burguera, Bartolome ^a,b   Couce, Marta E ^a   Long, Jin ^a   Lamsam, Jesse ^a   Laakso, Karen ^a   Jensen, Michael D ^a   Parisi, Joseph E ^a   Lloyd, Ricardo V ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cerebellum; Human brain; Leptin receptor; Medulla; Ob gene; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE; CYTOPLASM; DENDRITE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEOCORTEX; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OBESITY; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0034014941     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000054536     Document Type: Article

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