Leptin-signaling Protein Maintains Normal Body Weight And Energy Balance In Mice
32% increase of African fish supply needed by 2020 just to maintain consumption levels Calling fisheries critical for nourishing the poor and for helping Africa cope with the health, economic and social devastation of problems like HIV and AIDS, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the WorldFish Center and partners are making an urgent appeal to boost the continent's fish...Leptin found to control appetite and limb development in frogs
Leptin, the hormone secreted by fat cells that plays an important role in food intake, has been described for the first time in a cold-blooded vertebrate, the South African clawed frog Xenopus. As it does in humans and other mammals, leptin acts on the frog brain to suppress appetite. But the hormone also seems to play a role in the complex signaling that turns a finned tadpole into a fou...Leptin has powerful effect on reward center in the brain
Leptin, a hormone critical for normal food intake and metabolism, exerts a strong effect on appetite by acting in the mid-brain region as well as in the hypothalamus, according to a Yale School of Medicine study in Neuron. "Finding that metabolic hormones directly regulate the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the mid-brain has profound implications for how researchers view the integration...Porcine Leptin ELISA Kit from Diagnostic Systems Laboratories, Inc.
Description:Leptin is a proteohormone with a molecular weight of 16 kDa. Leptin is a protein encoded by the ob gene and produced by adipocytes [1,2]. Leptin is thought to play a key role in the regulation of body weight [1-3]. In the human, leptin levels are elevated with increasing adiposity in both men and women [4]. A relationship between serum leptin levels and several measures of adiposity (e.g. bod...Rat Leptin, Unconjugated from R&D Systems
Description:Recombinant Rat Leptin, CF...Rabbit Anti-Leptin Receptor Polyclonal Antibody, Unconjugated from BioVision
Description:Leptin Receptor Polyclonal Ab 100 ug purified rabbit anti-mouse Leptin Receptor. Tested in Western blotting....Rat Leptin Assay Kit from Immuno-Biological Laboratories, Inc.
Description:This kit #27295 has improved stability and convenience from the former kit #17295. However, the improved kit not only has overcome this problem but also produced some advantages as follows. At first, we have changed the formulation of HRP conjugated antibody from lyophilized product to liquid (0.4mL X 1). By this change, the stability of the conjugate has improved so that the conjugate can use fo...Leptin connected to obesity blood clots
According to researchers, increased levels of the hormone leptin may explain why obese people seem to be more at risk of blood clotting// that causes heart attack and strokes.It is well known that being overweight or obese increases the risk of cardiovascular problems.Now researchers at the University of Michigan are one step closer to understanding why. They have turned the spotlight on the role...Weight gain following smoking cessation not linked to Leptin
Smoking cessation has often been connected to gaining excess weight. It has been debated for long that this weight gain could be related to the hormone leptin, which regulates appetite and controls// weight. These arguments were based on assumptions that leptin levels were high during smoking periods, thus keeping weight down and after one stops smoking, the leptin levels plummet leading to weigh...Leptin is "new breast cancer indicator"
A study, published in the Proceedings for the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, suggests that assessing leptin levels may be a more effective means of cancer prognosis than measuring body mass index and the amount of fat in a woman’s diet. None of the measures for detecting breast cancer are perfect, says lead author Dr Richard Hajek from the University of Texas...Leptin Soluble Receptor ELISA Test
Description:Leptin is a 16kDa peptide encoded by the ob gene and is produced exclusively by adipocytes. It is believed to play a key role in the regulation of body weight by influencing energy intake and expenditure [1,2]. Leptin functions as a lipostat and is produced by adipocytes in response to increasing fat stores. Increased serum leptin levels signal the brain to stop eating and increase energy expendi...