leptin

The more fat a person has, the higher the level of leptin.

The next year its product was shown to be leptin.

"Leptin in my mind is a little bit of a disappointment."

They also have much lower levels of the fat hormone, leptin.

Others, like leptin, affect weight, but only after a very long time, he said.

Leptin might not be able to make its way properly into a cell.

"Within a week of leptin treatment she was eating normal kid's food."

The leptin would then serve as a sort of virtual fat.

If so, providing the missing leptin might cause them to lose weight.

If that were the case, then giving even more leptin might be futile.

But it turned out that obese people are not low on leptin, he said.

But it turned out that overweight people make plenty of leptin.

But some researchers say leptin may act differently from what was originally thought.

Second, it removes the doubts as to whether leptin would work at all.

In the short-term, leptin might be an indicator of energy balance.

"It doesn't look to me like what's wrong with human beings is a deficit of leptin."

Sleep deprivation can cause a 19% decrease in the level of leptin.

In mice, leptin is also required for male and female fertility.

Doctors have found about a half-dozen people around the world who are unable to make any leptin at all.

Perhaps if they took leptin, they would be able to stay thin.

With leptin injections, the animals stopped eating and lost weight.

Leptin's ability to regulate bone mass was first recognized in 2000.

This field of research had been almost unapproached until leptin was discovered in 1994.

If so, he said, injecting such people with even more leptin would be futile.

But some experts say the study shows that leptin failed as a weight-loss drug.