The evidence of metabolic-improving effect of metformin in Ay/a mice with genetically-induced melanocortin obesity and the contribution of hypothalamic mechanisms to this effect

• Kira Derkach,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Endocrinology and Neurochemistry, Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0348-0631

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• Irina Zakharova,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Endocrinology and Neurochemistry, Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8857-7012

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• Inna Zorina,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Endocrinology and Neurochemistry, Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7328-2120

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• Andrey Bakhtyukov,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Endocrinology and Neurochemistry, Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2060-2020

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• Irina Romanova,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Endocrinology and Neurochemistry, Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

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• Liubov Bayunova,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Endocrinology and Neurochemistry, Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

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• Alexander Shpakov

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: alex_shpakov@list.ru

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Endocrinology and Neurochemistry, Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4293-3162

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