Living without insulin: The role of leptin signaling in the hypothalamus

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Fujikawa, Teppei ^a   Coppari, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Diabetes mellitus; Diabetes mellitus type 1; Diabetes mellitus type 2; Insulin; Leptin; Leptin receptors

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; ENERGY BALANCE; GLUCAGON RELEASE; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; METABOLIC REGULATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TANYCYTE; THERMOGENESIS;

EID: 84928164899     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00108     Document Type: Article

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