Glia: silent partners in energy homeostasis and obesity pathogenesis

Diabetologia

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 226-236

  Douglass, John D ^a   Dorfman, Mauricio D ^a   Thaler, Joshua P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Brain; Central nervous system; Diabetes; Energy homeostasis; Glia; Hypothalamus; Inflammation; Microglia; Obesity; Review

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ASTROCYTE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL METABOLISM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIET INDUCED OBESITY; ENERGY METABOLISM; GLIA CELL; GLIOSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; LIPID DIET; METABOLIC REGULATION; MICROGLIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROCYTE PROGENITOR; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TANYCYTE; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; GENETICS; GLIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; METABOLISM; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEUROGLIA; OBESITY;

EID: 85006354959     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: 14320428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-016-4181-3     Document Type: Review

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