BACKGROUND AND AIM Leptin, a hormone mainly produced by fat cells, acts primarily on the hypothalamus regulating energy expenditure and food intake. Leptin receptors are expressed in several tissues and the possible physiological role of leptin is being extensively investigated, with the result that important peripheral actions of the hormone in the organism are being discovered. Recent studies...

Background and aim: Leptin, a hormone mainly produced by fat cells, acts primarily on the hypothalamus regulating energy expenditure and food intake. Leptin receptors are expressed in several tissues and the possible physiological role of leptin is being extensively investigated, with the result that important peripheral actions of the hormone in the organism are being discovered. Recent studie...

Several studies have recently investigated the role of leptin, the adipocyte-secreted hormone, in the growth and reproduction of rodents, humans, and domestic animals. The present study was designed to explore the expression of leptin and its receptor in pig spermatozoa. Successful Western blot evidenced a 16 kDa band for leptin and six isoforms, ranging from 120 to 40 kDa, for the leptin recep...

Leptin is a hormone secreted by the gastric mucosa into the lumen of the stomach. It is present in its intact form in the intestine where it regulates nutrient absorption and intestinal mucosa integrity. We have identified the binding protein that protects leptin from the harsh conditions of the gastric juice. Immunoprecipitations and Western blot analyses demonstrated that leptin is present in...

An anti-leptin receptor polyclonal antibody (receptor antibody), as well as leptin, stimulated the release of free fatty acids from isolated mouse fat pads in a time-dependent manner. Following a 90-min incubation, maximal lipolysis was observed at 6 microg/ml receptor antibody and 0.1 nM leptin. The receptor antibody did not show any additive effect to the stimulation of lipolysis induced by l...

Leptin receptors are supposed to have signal effects and are located in most tissues in the organism but we failed to find literary data on concentration (measurement) of leptin receptors in the system circulation. We examined by the method of randomized selection the group of 20 patients with manifested atherosclerosis in whom BMI was calculated. Then we analyzed concentration of leptin recept...

background: recurrent spontaneous abortion is one of the diseases that can lead to physical, psychological, and, economical problems for both individuals and society. recently a few numbers of genetic polymorphisms in kinase insert domain-containing receptor (kdr) gene are examined that can endanger the life of the fetus in pregnant women. objective: the risk of kdr gene polymorphisms was inves...