A diabetes drug may beat costly shots for patients with a rare genetic condition, according to a Rutgers Health study.

Leptin is a hormone produced by fat cells. Leptin plays a key role in regulating appetite and metabolism. When you eat, fat ...

Leptin is an adipokine responsible for central control of food intake and energy homeostasis, and has been implicated in a variety of neurophysiological functions, including brain development ...

In control parabiosis studies using two normal ... fatty acids or lipid extracts of adipose tissue. In humans, many leptin deficiency syndromes are responsive to leptin replacement therapy.

In the weeks following birth, however, leptin also helps direct the formation of circuits that control homeostatic functions. In their paper, the Simerly lab describes three primary results ...