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Analysis of Tyr to Phe and fa/fa leptin receptor mutations in the PC12 cell line. Volume 10, numéro 4, December 1999

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Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Dept VIB09, Medical Protein Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ghent, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
  • Page(s) : 549-56
  • Année de parution : 1999

INTRODUCTION The maintenance of food stores and energy homeostasis is established through the effect of an expanding array of (neuro)peptides and neurotransmitters. They constitute a complex interaction network in which leptin, a hormone primarily secreted by white adipose tissue, plays a major role that is documented by several rodent obesity models [1-3]. After transportation through the blood-brain barrier, the satiety [...]