Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) poses a significant challenge in modern medicine due to its high prevalence. The pathogenesis of MAFLD involves a complex dysmetabolic ...

Since the discovery of leptin in human breast milk (1,2), the role of leptin in controlling neonatal development has come to the fore of pediatric research. Originally, leptin was identified as the ...

Could people with Type 1 diabetes one day replace insulin with leptin? A research team at UT Southwestern has had promising results with animal studies and now is laying the groundwork for testing it ...

Nov. 16, 2005 (San Francisco) -- Patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection have higher serum levels of leptin than healthy individuals, and the amount of the hormone increases ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 107, No. 38 (September 21, 2010), pp. 16673-16678 (6 pages) Western lifestyle contributes to body weight ...

To test the theory, Horvath and his team selectively knocked out leptin receptors in the adult non-neuronal glial cells of mice. The team then recorded the water and food intake, as well as physical ...

When it comes to type 2 diabetes, we tend to think we know all there is to know and are resigned to lifelong insulin injections. But its causes are not uniform throughout the world. For instance, in ...

Reduced levels of a metabolic hormone known as leptin is linked to poor vaccine antibody responses in the general population, a study has found. Reduced levels of a metabolic hormone known as leptin ...