Prenatal leptin production: Evidence that fetal adipose tissue produces leptin

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 2409-2413

  Lepercq, Jacques ^a   Challier, Jean Claude ^b   Guerre Millo, Michèle ^c   Cauzac, Michèle ^d   Vidal, Hubert ^c   Hauguel De Mouzon, Sylvie ^d  

^a Hôpital Cochin Saint Vincent de Paul ^*  (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BODY MASS; FEMALE; FETUS CIRCULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MATERNAL BLOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 0034974283     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.86.6.7529     Document Type: Article

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