• Title of article

    Role of leptin in energy-deprivation states: normal human physiology and clinical implications for hypothalamic amenorrhoea and anorexia nervosa

  • Author/Authors

    Jean L Chan، نويسنده , , Christos S Mantzoros، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    12
  • From page
    74
  • To page
    85
  • Abstract
    Leptin is an adipocyte-secreted hormone that plays a key part in energy homoeostasis. Advances in leptin physiology have established that the main role of this hormone is to signal energy availability in energy-deficient states. Studies in animals and hum
  • Journal title
    The Lancet
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    The Lancet
  • Record number

    588319