Leptin may not be responsible for high altitude anorexia [2]

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 90-92

  Vats, Praveen ^a   Singh, Som N ^a   Shyam, Radhey ^a   Singh, Vijay K ^a   Singh, Shashi B ^a   Banerjee, Pratul K ^a   Selvamurthy, William ^a  

^a DEFENCE INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LEPTIN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANOREXIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LETTER; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; VOLUNTEER; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOREXIA; APPETITE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1842431663     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152702904322963753     Document Type: Letter

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