FTO is expressed in neurones throughout the brain and its expression is unaltered by fasting

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  McTaggart, James S ^a   Lee, Sheena ^a   Iberl, Michaela ^a   Church, Chris ^a,b   Cox, Roger D ^a,b   Ashcroft, Frances M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC Harwell   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT MASS AND OBESITY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FASTING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; NEURONS; OXO-ACID-LYASES; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 82355194591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027968     Document Type: Article

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