Obesity Hypertension: The Regulatory Role of Leptin

Leptin is a 16-kDa-peptide hormone that is primarily synthesized and secreted by adipose tissue. One of the major actions of this hormone is the control of energy balance by binding to receptors in the hypothalamus, leading to reduction in food intake and elevation in temperature and energy expendit...

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Autores principales: Kshatriya, Shilpa, Liu, Kan, Salah, Ali, Szombathy, Tamas, Freeman, Ronald H., Reams, Garry P., Spear, Robert M., Villarreal, Daniel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3022168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21253519
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/270624

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3022168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21253519
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/270624

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