Peripheral leptin levels in narcoleptic patients

Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 348-353

  Dahmen, Norbert ^a   Engel, Alice ^a   Helfrich, Jana ^a   Manderscheid, Nina ^a   Löbig, Mirjam ^b   Forst, Thomas ^b   Pfützner, Andreas ^b   Tonn, Peter ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b IKFE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; OREXIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; MALE; NARCOLEPSY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOLEPSY; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 34548316772     PISSN: 15209156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dia.2006.0037     Document Type: Article

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