Ablations of Ghrelin and Ghrelin Receptor Exhibit Differential Metabolic Phenotypes and Thermogenic Capacity during Aging

• Xiaojun Ma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaojun Ma, Ligen Lin

  Affiliations Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Ligen Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaojun Ma, Ligen Lin

  Affiliation USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Guijun Qin,

  Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

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• Xinping Lu,

  Affiliation Digestive Disease Branch, National Institutes of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Marta Fiorotto,

  Affiliation USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Vishwa D. Dixit,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Neuroendocrine-Immunology, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Yuxiang Sun

  * E-mail: yuxiangs@bcm.edu

  Affiliations USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Huffington Center on Aging, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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