Functional analyses of melanocortin-4 receptor mutations identified from patients with binge eating disorder and nonobese or obese subjects

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 5632-5638

  Tao, Ya Xiong ^a,b   Segaloff, Deborah L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; CELL SURFACE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY; LIGAND BINDING; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

ALPHA-MSH; BULIMIA; CELL LINE; CYCLIC AMP; DNA; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; OBESITY; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 26244440175     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2005-0519     Document Type: Article

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