Dendritically targeted Bdnf mRNA is essential for energy balance and response to leptin

Nature Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 564-571

  Liao, Guey Ying ^a   An, Juan Ji ^a   Gharami, Kusumika ^a   Waterhouse, Emily G ^a   Vanevski, Filip ^a   Jones, Kevin R ^b   Xu, Baoji ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS; STAT3 PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENERGY BALANCE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELLS, CULTURED; DENDRITES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEURONS; OBESITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; RECEPTOR, TRKB; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

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EID: 84859560308     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.2687     Document Type: Article

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