The concept of selective leptin resistance: Evidence from agouti yellow obese mice

Diabetes

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 439-442

  Correia, Marcelo L G ^a,b,d   Haynes, William G ^a,b   Rahmouni, Kamal ^a,b   Morgan, Donald A ^a,b   Sivitz, William I ^a,b   Mark, Allyn L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOREXIA; APPETITE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOOD INTAKE; HORMONE METABOLISM; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPERTENSION; MOUSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0036066483     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.51.2.439     Document Type: Article

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