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The role of AEBP1 in sex-specific diet-induced obesity.
Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) - 1 Jan 2000
Zhang Lei, Reidy Shannon P, Nicholson Tara E, Lee Hyun-Jeong, Majdalawieh Amin, Webber Chris, Stewart Bruce R, Dolphin Peter, Ro Hyo-Sung
Abstract excerpt
Obesity is an important risk factor for heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers, but the molecular basis for obesity is poorly understood. The transcriptional repressor AEBP1, which functions as a negative regulator of PTEN through a protein-protein interaction, is highly expressed in the stromal compartment of adipose tissues, including proliferative preadipocytes, and its expression is abolished in...
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