Lipodystrophy: Metabolic insights from a rare disorder

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 207, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 245-255

  Huang Doran, Isabel ^a   Sleigh, Alison ^a   Rochford, Justin J ^a   O'Rahilly, Stephen ^a   Savage, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET; FATTY ACID; PROTEIN TAG;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FAMILIAL PARTIAL LIPODYSTROPHY; FATTY LIVER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; HYPERANDROGENISM; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPODYSTROPHY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MICE; OBESITY;

EID: 78650055830     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: 14796805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/JOE-10-0272     Document Type: Review

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