Leptin and liver disease: Facts and presumptions

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 122-124

  Siddiqui, Arif Rasheed ^a,b   Abbas, Zaigham ^a  

^a CIVIL HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^b PECHS   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Fatty liver; Fibrosis cirrhosis; Leptin; Liver disease; Obesity

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GLUCOSE; LEPTIN;

ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FATTY LIVER; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LIPID STORAGE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRODUCTION; WOUND HEALING;

HUMANS; LEPTIN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES;

EID: 2342442432     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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