Leptin antagonist reveals an uncoupling between leptin receptor signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 signaling and metabolic responses with central leptin resistance

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 320, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 706-712

  Scarpace, Philip J ^a,c   Matheny, Michael ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a,b   Cheng, Kit Yan ^a   Tümer, Nihal ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; LEPTIN; LEPTIN ANTAGONIST; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; STAT3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ADIPOSITY; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DEPENDOVIRUS; EATING; HYPOTHALAMUS; ION CHANNELS; LEPTIN; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 33846447066     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: 15210103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.106.112813     Document Type: Article

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