Obesity in the new millennium

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6778, 2000, Pages 632-634

  Friedman, J M ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; LEPTIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTEIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD INTAKE; GENE; HEREDITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034611675     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35007504     Document Type: Review

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