Quantification of the soluble leptin receptor in human blood by ligand-mediated immunofunctional assay

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2931-2939

  Wu, Zida ^a   Bidlingmaier, Martin ^b   Liu, Changlu ^a   De Souza, Errol B ^a   Tschöp, Matthias ^a   Morrison, Katherine M ^a   Strasburger, Christian J ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NEUROCRINE BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN RECEPTOR; LIGAND; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPLEX FORMATION; DIET RESTRICTION; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOASSAY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036075860     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.87.6.8610     Document Type: Article

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