Magel2 Is Required for Leptin-Mediated Depolarization of POMC Neurons in the Hypothalamic Arcuate Nucleus in Mice

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mercer, Rebecca E ^a   Michaelson, Sheldon D ^a   Chee, Melissa J S ^b   Atallah, Tanya A ^a   Wevrick, Rachel ^a   Colmers, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; STAT3 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HORMONE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAGEL2 GENE; MALE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ADIPOSITY; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPERPHAGIA; LEPTIN; MICE; NEURONS; OBESITY; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84873493133     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003207     Document Type: Article

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