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Experimental Approach to Examine Leptin Signaling in the Carotid Bodies and its Effects on Control of Breathing
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Effect of altitude on leptin levels, does it go up or down?
Justo Sierra-Johnson1, Abel Romero-Corral, Virend K Somers
1Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
Journal of Applied Physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)
|February 16, 2008
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