Glucose sensing by POMC neurons regulates glucose homeostasis and is impaired in obesity

Nature

Volumn 449, Issue 7159, 2007, Pages 228-232

  Parton, Laura E ^a   Ye, Chian Ping ^a   Coppari, Roberto ^a,b   Enriori, Pablo J ^c   Choi, Brian ^a   Zhang, Chen Yu ^a,d   Xu, Chun ^c   Vianna, Claudia R ^a   Balthasar, Nina ^a,e   Lee, Charlotte E ^a   Elmquist, Joel K ^b   Cowley, Michael A ^c   Lowell, Bradford B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM); ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR6.2; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 2;

BRAIN; DIABETES; DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE; HOMEOSTASIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OBESITY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; LIPID DIET; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MUS;

EID: 34548604499     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06098     Document Type: Article

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