Sex-dependent influences of obesity on cerebral white matter investigated by diffusion-tensor imaging

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Mueller, Karsten ^a   Anwander, Alfred ^a   Möller, Harald E ^a   Horstmann, Annette ^a,d   Lepsien, Jöran ^a   Busse, Franziska ^c   Mohammadi, Siawoosh ^b   Schroeter, Matthias L ^a,c   Stumvoll, Michael ^c,d   Villringer, Arno ^a,c,d   Pleger, Burkhard ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d Intergrated Research and Treatment Center (IFB) Adiposity Diseases   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ADULT; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ARTICLE; AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; LEPTIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; WHITE MATTER; ANISOTROPY; BLOOD; BRAIN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CEREBRUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 79954490068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018544     Document Type: Article

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