Effects of leptin and melanocortin signaling interactions on pubertal development and reproduction

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2408-2419

  Israel, Davelene D ^a   Sheffer Babila, Sharone ^a   De Luca, Carl ^b   Jo, Young Hwan ^a   Liu, Shun Mei ^a   Xia, Qiu ^a   Spergel, Daniel J ^c   Dun, Siok L ^d   Dun, Nae J ^d   Chua, Streamson C ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; GONADORELIN; LEPTIN; MELANOCORTIN; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HORMONE ACTION; LACTATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84860273331     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-1822     Document Type: Article

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