Leptin and its relation to weight loss, ob gene expression and the acute-phase response in surgical patients

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 588-593

  Moses, A G W ^a   Dowidar, N ^b   Holloway, B ^a   Waddell, I ^a   Fearon, K C H ^b   Ross, J A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CACHEXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HYPERMETABOLISM; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OMENTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SURGICAL PATIENT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACUTE-PHASE REACTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEPTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OMENTUM; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0035073499     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.2001.01743.x     Document Type: Article

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