Leptin, a hormone critical for normal food intake and metabolism, exerts a strong effect on appetite by acting in the mid-brain region as well as in the hypothalamus, according to a Yale School of ...

Leptin, a hormone known for its hunger-blocking effect on the brain, operates in a more complex way than previously thought, researchers from Yale and The Vollum Institute find, possibly leading to ...

affect whether people desire, dismiss, and delight in certain foods. Next, the teens got leptin to treat their leptin deficiency. One week later, the teens repeated the brain scans after fasting and ...

For more than a hundred years, insulin has been the key to controlling type 1 diabetes. It has saved lives by preventing diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a life-threatening condition that happens when the ...

Although clinical trials using the hormone, known as leptin, aren't yet on the horizon, the investigators say their success delivering it through the test animals' noses may help them develop ...

Once-promising drugs that were abandoned in the fight against breast cancer still could be effective in obese patients, new research suggests. In laboratory tests, hormones produced by fat cells ...

New Haven, Conn.--Leptin, a hormone critical for normal food intake and metabolism, exerts a strong effect on appetite by acting in the mid-brain region as well as in the hypothalamus, according to a ...