Interaction of genetic and environmental programming of the leptin system and of obesity disposition

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 2000, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 113-120

  Schmidt, Ingrid ^a   Schoelch, Corinna ^a   Ziska, Thomas ^b   Schneider, Darius ^a   Simon, Eckhart ^a   Plagemann, Andreas ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HEART AND LUNG RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diet induced obesity; Fatty gene; Leptin receptor; Neonatal programming; Zucker rat

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LITTER SIZE; MALE; METABOLISM; OBESITY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ZUCKER RAT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CARRIER PROTEINS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LEPTIN; LITTER SIZE; MALE; OBESITY; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, ZUCKER; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0034625823     PISSN: 15312267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.2000.3.2.113     Document Type: Article

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