The Skinny on Body Weight Regulation: The Role of Retinoid Signaling in Photoperiod-Mediated Weight Loss

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-12

  Kriegsfeld, Lance J ^a   Silver, Rae ^a,b,c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

^c College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; HORMONE RECEPTOR; MELATONIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN NUCLEUS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL TUBEROMAMMILLARY NUCLEUS; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FOOD INTAKE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIPOGENESIS; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYRIAN HAMSTER; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WINTER;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CRICETINAE; PHOTOPERIOD; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RETINOID X RECEPTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0347089166     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-1346     Document Type: Short Survey

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