STAT3 signalling is required for leptin regulation of energy balance but not reproduction

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6925, 2003, Pages 856-859

  Bates, Sarah H ^a   Stearns, Walter H ^a   Dundon, Trevor A ^a   Schubert, Markus ^a   Tso, Annette W K ^a   Wang, Yongping ^b   Banks, Alexander S ^a   Lavery, Hugh J ^a   Haq, Asma K ^a   Maratos Flier, Eleftheria ^a   Neel, Benjamin G ^b   Schwartz, Michael W ^c   Myers Jr , Martin G ^a  

^a JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DISEASES; ENDOCRINOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ADIPOCYTES; GLUCOSE HAEMOSTATIS; NEUROPEPTIDES;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; STAT3 PROTEIN; TYROSINE;

BIOLOGY; ENERGY BALANCE; SIGNALING;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENERGY BALANCE; FERTILITY; GENETIC CODE; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GROWTH DISORDER; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFERTILITY; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLELES; ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL LINE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LEPTIN; MALE; MICE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037456304     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01388     Document Type: Article

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