The existence of a factor secreted by white adipose tissue (WAT), which acts to control feeding, weight and WAT mass, was first proposed by Kennedy 1 and is supported by monogenic mutations resulting ...

In a new study, Yale researchers offer insight into leptin, a hormone that plays a key role in appetite, overeating, and obesity. Their findings advance knowledge about leptin and weight gain, and ...

Clinical and experimental data, together with epidemiological studies, have suggested that the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS) might involve factors that link the immune system with metabolic ...

Leptin, a hormone known for its hunger-blocking effect on the brain, operates in a more complex way than previously thought, researchers from Yale and The Vollum Institute find, possibly leading to ...

Four years after its discovery, the weight-controlling protein hormone leptin is still making news. At the American Diabetes Association meeting in Chicago June 14, researchers from Amgen Inc. of ...

A “stop eating” hormone casts a wide net in the brain. After a large meal, fat cells churn out an appetite suppressant called leptin, which hits the brain’s neurons and tickles other kinds of brain ...

Remember leptin? The much-publicised "fat-busting" protein? Maybe not. A few years can be a long time in the fad-prone world of obesity and weight loss. Leptin's big moment came in the mid-Nineties ...

The disease of obesity is now a scourge in the western world, including Ireland where 10 per cent of boys and 9 per cent of girls are obese compared to 1 per cent in 1976. Ireland ranks 79th out of ...