| Literature DB >> 20887884 |
Jeffrey S Flier1, Eleftheria Maratos-Flier.
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This year, the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award will be shared by Douglas Coleman and Jeffrey Friedman for their discovery of leptin, a hormone that regulates appetite and body weight. By uncovering a critical physiologic system, their discovery markedly accelerated our capacity to apply molecular and genetic techniques to understand obesity.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID： 20887884 DOI： 10.1016/j.cell.2010.09.021
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell ISSN： 0092-8674 Impact factor: 41.582