The cellular and molecular bases of leptin and ghrelin resistance in obesity

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 338-351

  Cui, Huxing ^a   López, Miguel ^b,c   Rahmouni, Kamal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; CELASTROL; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GHRELIN; GHRELIN RECEPTOR; GLUCOSE REGULATED PROTEIN 78; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT5 PROTEIN; SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALING 3; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP;

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BINDING AFFINITY; BONE DENSITY; CATALYSIS; CHOROID PLEXUS; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOREGULATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPOTOXICITY; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CYCLIC AMP; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; GHRELIN; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEPTIN; OBESITY; RECEPTORS, GHRELIN; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 85013672473     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2016.222     Document Type: Review

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