Cloning and characterization of an uncoupling protein homolog: A potential molecular mediator of human thermogenesis

Diabetes

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 900-906

  Gimeno, Ruth E ^a   Dembski, Marlene ^a   Weng, Xun ^a   Deng, Nanhua ^a   Shyjan, Andrew W ^a   Gimeno, Carlos J ^a   Iris, Francois ^a   Ellis, Stephen J ^a   Woolf, Elizabeth A ^a   Tartaglia, Louis A ^a  

^a MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNCOUPLING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION UNCOUPLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THERMOGENESIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

EID: 15144356206     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diab.46.5.900     Document Type: Article

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