Evidence that the diabetes gene encodes the leptin receptor: Identification of a mutation in the leptin receptor gene in db/db mice

Cell

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 491-495

  Chen, Hong ^a   Charlat, Olga ^a   Tartaglia, Louis A ^a   Woolf, Elizabeth A ^a   Weng, Xun ^a   Ellis, Stephen J ^a   Lakey, Nathan D ^a   Culpepper, Janice ^a   More, Karen J ^a   Breitbart, Roger E ^a   Duyk, Geoffrey M ^a   Tepper, Robert I ^a   Morgenstern, Jay P ^a  

^a MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLASMA PROTEIN; RECEPTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 13344259300     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81294-5     Document Type: Article

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