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IL-15 receptor deletion results in circadian changes of locomotor and metabolic activity.
Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN - 1 Jun 2010
He Yi, Wu Xiaojun, Khan Reas S, Kastin Abba J, Cornelissen-Guillaume Germaine G, Hsuchou Hung, Robert Barry, Halberg Franz, Pan Weihong
Abstract excerpt
Interleukin-15 (IL-15) is a cytokine produced in the normal brain that acts on its specific receptor IL-15Ralpha and co-receptors IL-2Rbeta and IL-2Rgamma in neuronal cells. The functions of the cerebral IL-15 system, however, are not yet clear. To test the hypothesis that IL-15Ralpha regulates metabolic activity and body temperature, we quantified the specific metabolic phenotype of IL-15Ralpha knockout mice....
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