Leptin and the treatment of obesity: Its current status

European Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 440, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 129-139

  Lee, Daniel W ^a   Leinung, Matthew C ^a   Rozhavskaya Arena, Marina ^a   Grasso, Patricia ^b  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Tel: +1 718 831 0345 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

(Rodent); Leptin; Obesity

Indexed keywords

FENFLURAMINE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PHENTERMINE; SIBUTRAMINE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; TETRAHYDROLIPSTATIN; THYROID HORMONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENCY; ERYTHEMA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRODUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; LEPTIN; OBESITY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0037066632     PISSN: 00142999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2999(02)01424-3     Document Type: Article

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