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Salivary Biomarkers Highlight Metabolic Disease Risk In Children

... insulin, c-reactive protein (CRP), adiponectin and leptin. These results suggest that obesity may be characterized and classified ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2014 - 9:34pm - 0 attachments

Not Just Neurons: Leptin Also Influences Other Cells That Control Appetite

Twenty years after the hormone leptin was found to regulate metabolism, appetite, and weight through brain ... also acts on other types of cells to control appetite. Leptin, a naturally occurring hormone, is known for its hunger-blocking effect ... by signals that travel from the body to the brain. Leptin is one of the molecules that signal the brain to modulate food intake. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2014 - 10:00pm - 0 attachments

Study Shows How Common Obesity Gene Contributes To Weight Gain

... some instances, by affecting the function of receptors for leptin, a hormone that suppresses appetite. The findings, made in mice, suggest ... CUMC team found that RPGRIP1L-deficient mice had impaired leptin signaling. "The receptors didn't convene properly on the cell surface ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2014 - 4:39pm - 0 attachments

Happy Thanksgiving: If Kids Exercise, They Are Not Doomed By Maternal Epigenetics To Be Obese

... to respond to a hormone known to suppress the appetite - leptin - long after they stopped running on their exercise wheels. Because ... brains were injected with the appetite-suppressing hormone leptin. Those that had exercised weeks before ate less, while the sedentary ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2013 - 5:25pm - 0 attachments

Why Cocaine Addicts Tend To Be Skinny

... history of drug abuse. They also measured the volunteers' leptin, a hormone which plays an important role in regulating appetite and ... compared to the control group. Levels of the hormone leptin were also low in cocaine users and were associated with the duration of ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2013 - 12:30pm - 0 attachments

Do Diet And Exercise Lead To 'Healthier Hormones'?

... adiponectin, which increases the effect of insulin, and leptin, which can promote tumor cell growth." Cornelia analyzed this in a ... relation of the two hormone levels," said Ulrich. Leptin production decreased in all three intervention groups, most noticeably ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2013 - 1:59pm - 0 attachments

Invariant Natural Killer T-Cells Could Help Prevent Obesity

... improved insulin sensitivity, lower triglycerides and leptin, and shrunken adipocytes,” Lynch said. Finally, in order to ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2012 - 8:00am - 0 attachments

Helicobacter Pylori

... hormones that have a role in energy homeostasis, such as leptin and ghrelin; a link between its disappearance and the increasing ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Oct 19 2012 - 8:03am - 0 attachments

Food Fear, Food Labels, And My Two Cents

If you want to scare somebody, convince them that there is a remote chance of danger in their food, water or medicine. Even if there is no evidence to back up the claim, people respond strongly to such information, causing them to abandon safe foods for a ...

Article - Kevin M. Folta - Sep 17 2012 - 4:34pm - 0 attachments

Transsexual Smokescreen: Ignoring Science In “The Man Who Would Be Queen”

Both in her recent appearance on KQED’s Forum talk show and in her blog , Stanford University’s Joan Roughgarden continues her campaign to discredit me and my book, The Man Who Would Be Queen. Roughgarden’s rate of false accusations per ...

Article - Michael Bailey - Sep 5 2007 - 11:33am - 0 attachments