Sixteen years and counting: An update on leptin in energy balance

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2087-2093

  Gautron, Laurent ^a   Elmquist, Joel K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LEPTIN;

BLOOD LEVEL; BODY WEIGHT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROENDOCRINE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEPTIN; MICE; MICE, OBESE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVERNUTRITION; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; STARVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 79957896666     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI45888     Document Type: Review

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