Science news articles about 'leptin receptors'

... release. Hinoi et al. tested whether leptin acts on the pancreas through osteocalcin ... lower in mice lacking the leptin receptor, indicating a connection between leptin and the sympathetic nervous system ...

... the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Basic Cancer Research Meeting. "Leptin receptor expression may be a useful molecular marker in predicting the level of aggression of Middle ...

... to the spinal cord prevented and reversed the condition. Consistent with this, levels of leptin and one form of the leptin receptor were upregulated in parts of the spinal cord after nerve injury in ...

... to do the job," said Christian Bjorbaek of Harvard Medical School. What's more, animals with leptin receptors only in the so-called pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons spontaneously increase their ...

... study therefore adds to growing evidence that leptin doesn't turn the appetite on and off ... effect on appetite." But in fact, neurons bearing leptin receptors exist in many other parts of the brain too ...

... the hypothalamus is the critical brain site where leptin acts directly to alter neuronal circuit ... metabolic state. If animals are missing leptin, or the leptin receptor, they eat too much and become ...

... no arthritis if their bodies didn't have leptin," said Farshid Guilak, Ph.D., director ... osteoarthritis. They studied mice that were leptin-deficient or deficient in leptin receptors – mice that didn't ...