Functional coupling analysis suggests link between the obesity gene FTO and the BDNF-NTRK2 signaling pathway

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Rask Andersen, Mathias ^a   Almén, Markus S ^a   Olausen, Hans R ^a   Olszewski, Pawel K ^a,b   Eriksson, Jenny ^a   Chavan, Rohit A ^a   Levine, Allen S ^b   Fredriksson, Robert ^a   Schiöth, Helgi B ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE CATALYTIC SUBUNIT; FAT MASS AND OBESITY PROTEIN; PROFILIN; PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FTO PROTEIN, MOUSE; LYASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; NTRK2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; C57BL MOUSE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OBESITY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; OBESITY; OXO-ACID-LYASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 81055124147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-12-117     Document Type: Article

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