The role of leptin in NAFLD: Contender or pretender?

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 841-843

  Poordad, F Fred ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR;

ADIPOCYTE; BODY MASS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; EDITORIAL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEATOSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

CLINICAL TRIALS; FATTY LIVER; HUMANS; LEPTIN; LIVER; OBESITY;

EID: 6944235898     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-200411000-00002     Document Type: Editorial

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