From observation to experimentation: leptin action in the mediobasal hypothalamus
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- 1 March 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 89 (3) , 985S-990S
- https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.2008.26788d
Abstract
The burgeoning obesity epidemic has fueled the drive to describe, mechanistically, metabolic homeostasis. From the early theories implicating glucoseKeywords
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