Nature Medicine
2, 949 - 950 (1996)
doi:10.1038/nm0996-949b
Gender differences in plasma leptin concentrationsPeter J. Havel, Sidaka Kasim-karakas, Gloria R. Dubuc, Wendy Muller
& Stephen D. PhinneyDepartments of Nutrition and Internal Medicine, University of California - Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA
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