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Animal Models of Obesity

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Adipose tissue in genetically obese rodents

    • Margaret Ashwell, C. J. Meade
    Pages 107-130
  3. Non-genetic models of obesity

    • D. S. Miller
    Pages 131-140
  4. Energy balance in reversible obesity

    • M. J. Stock, Nancy J. Rothwell
    Pages 141-151
  5. The hypothalamo — pituitary system in obesity

    • J. A. Edwardson, Amanda Donaldson
    Pages 177-190
  6. Thermoregulation in genetically obese rodents: the relationship to metabolic efficiency

    • P. Trayhurn, P. L. Thurlby, C. J. H. Woodward, W. P. T. James
    Pages 191-203
  7. Immunity in genetically obese rodents

    • C. J. Meade, J. Sheena
    Pages 205-220
  8. Comparison of genetic models of obesity in animals with obesity in man

    • W. P. T. James, M. J. Dauncey, R. T. Jung, P. S. Shetty, P. Trayhurn
    Pages 221-235
  9. The clinician’s approach

    • J. S. Garrow
    Pages 237-249
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 250-258

Editors and Affiliations

  • Medical Research Council Laboratory Animals Centre, Carshalton, Surrey, UK

    Michael F. W. Festing

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