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Fever responses of Zucker rats with and without fatty mutation of the leptin receptor.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology - 1 Jan 2002
Ivanov Andrei I, Romanovsky Andrej A
Abstract excerpt
Leptin is thought to be involved in febrigenic signaling from the periphery to the brain. Zucker obese rats have a so-called fatty mutation in the leptin receptor gene and express a dysfunctional protein. Studies comparing the fever responses of fatty (fa/fa) rats and of their lean (Fa/Fa and Fa/fa) counterparts yield contradictory results. To resolve these contradictions, we evaluated the effect of fatty...
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