Leptin

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Castracane, V. Daniel (Editor), Henson, Michael C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Series: Endocrine Updates, 25
• Subjects: Medicine.; Endocrinology.; Medicine & Public Health.

The discovery of leptin little more than a decade ago, as a hormone produced in white adipose tissue with an important role in satiety and energy expenditure, was a seminal event in our understanding of adiposity. This initial advance in the new endocrinology of obesity was soon followed by the real...