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Leptin, malnutrition, and immune response in rural Gambian children

Background: The adipocyte derived hormone, leptin, has cytokine like function and may mediate the effects of starvation on immunity. Mice with congenital leptin deficiency (ob/ob) have small hypocellular thymuses and impaired cellular immunity. In humans leptin influences the differentiation of naïv...

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Main Authors: Moore, S, Morgan, G, Collinson, A, Swain, J, O'Connell, M, Prentice, A
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: 2002
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1719231/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12193424
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/adc.87.3.192
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