"Infectobesity: viral infections (especially with human adenovirus-36: Ad-36) may be a cause of obesity

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 383-388

  van Ginneken, Vincent ^a   Sitnyakowsky, Laura ^b   Jeffery, Jonathan E ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c International School of Amsterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; INSULIN; LEPTIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS VACCINE;

ADENOVIRUS INFECTION; ADIPOCYTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AVIADENOVIRUS; BORNA DISEASE VIRUS; CANINE DISTEMPER MORBILLIVIRUS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUROPE; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; HEREDITY; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS 36; INFECTOBESITY; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIPID STORAGE; LIVER DISEASE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROADIPOCYTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ROTAVIRUS; ROUS ASSOCIATED VIRUS 7; TWIN DISCORDANCE; VACCINATION;

ADENOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; OBESITY;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CAPRA HIRCUS; CRICETINAE; GALLUS GALLUS; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; MUS; OVIS ARIES; PRIMATES; RATTUS;

EID: 60749090265     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.11.034     Document Type: Article

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