Spexin is a novel human peptide that reduces adipocyte uptake of long chain fatty acids and causes weight loss in rodents with diet-induced obesity

Obesity

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1643-1652

  Walewski, José L ^a   Ge, Fengxia ^a   Lobdell IV, Harrison ^a   Levin, Nancy ^b   Schwartz, Gary J ^c   Vasselli, Joseph R ^d   Pomp, Afons ^e   Dakin, Gregory ^e   Berk, Paul D ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b CovX Pharmaceuticals ^*  (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; OLEIC ACID; PEPTIDE HORMONE; SPEXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FATTY ACID; SPEXIN PROTEIN, RAT;

ADIPOCYTE; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CONDITIONED TASTE AVERSION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID TRANSPORT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OMENTUM; RAT; RESPIRATORY EXCHANGE RATIO; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPEXIN GENE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECTS; EATING; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; WISTAR RAT;

MUS; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

ADIPOCYTES; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DOWN-REGULATION; EATING; ENERGY INTAKE; FATTY ACIDS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, OBESE; OBESITY; OLEIC ACID; PEPTIDE HORMONES; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84903523186     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oby.20725     Document Type: Article

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