Molecular Therapy of Melanocortin-4-Receptor Obesity by an Autoregulatory BDNF Vector
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Molecular Therapy of Melanocortin-4-Receptor Obesity by an Autoregulatory BDNF Vector
Mutations in the melanocortin-4-receptor (MC4R) comprise the most common monogenic form of severe early-onset obesity, and conventional treatments are either ineffective long-term or contraindicated. Immediately downstream of MC4R-in the pathway for regulating energy balance-is brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). Our previous studies show that adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated hypotha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2329-0501
DOI: 10.1016/j.omtm.2017.09.005