Leptin, adiposity, and testosterone in captive male macaques

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 335-341

  Muehlenbein, Michael P ^a,f   Campbell, Benjamin C ^b   Richards, Robert J ^c   Watts, David P ^a   Svec, Frank ^c   Falkenstein, Kathrine Phillippi ^d   Murchison, Mark A ^d   Myers, Leann ^e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiposity; Contest competition; Energetics; Macaca mulatta; Macaca nemestrina; Primate mass index

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GONAD FUNCTION; GROUPS BY AGE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MACACA; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; RHESUS MONKEY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; LEPTIN; MACACA MULATTA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 20444366889     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20071     Document Type: Article

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