Interleukin-6-deficient mice develop mature-onset obesity

Nature Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 75-79

  Wallenius, Ville ^a   Wallenius, Kristina ^a   Ahrén, Bo ^b   Rudling, Mats ^c   Carlsten, Hans ^a   Dickson, Suzanne L ^d   Ohlsson, Claes ^a   Jansson, John Olov ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOBESITY AGENT; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC DISORDER; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLIC DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY COMPOSITION; CORTICOSTERONE; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEPTIN; LIPIDS; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; OBESITY; SEX FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036152683     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0102-75     Document Type: Article

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