Newly discovered road map of leptin explains its regulation of bone and appetite
Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 12:49
in Health & Medicine
NEW YORK -- New research from Columbia University Medical Center has illuminated a previously unknown leptin-serotonin pathway in the brain that simultaneously promotes appetite and bone mass accrual. The research, which explains how leptin -- well-known appetite-suppressing hormone -- acts in the brain, is published in the Sept. 4 issue of Cell.