Leptin levels and body composition of mice selectively bred for high voluntary locomotor activity

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 568-579

  Girard, Isabelle ^a   Rezende, Enrico L ^b,c   Garland, Theodore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT; GLUCOSE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN; RODENT; SERUM;

MUS;

EID: 35348819878     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521086     Document Type: Article

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