Transcriptional Characterization of Porcine Leptin and Leptin Receptor Genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Pérez Montarelo, Dafne ^a   Fernández, Almudena ^a   Barragán, Carmen ^a   Noguera, Jose L ^b   Folch, Josep M ^c,d   Rodríguez, M Carmen ^a   Óvilo, Cristina ^a   Silió, Luis ^a   Fernández, Ana I ^a  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b IRTA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURAL GENOMICS CRAG   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEPTIN GENE; LEPTIN RECEPTOR GENE; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MALE; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; PIG;

SUIDAE; SUS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; LEPTIN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84879137698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066398     Document Type: Article

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