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ey0017.11-6 | Body Weight and Appetite/Energy Regulation | ESPEYB17

11.6. Leptin’s hunger-suppressing effects are mediated by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis in rodents

RJ Perry , JM Resch , AM Douglass , JC Madara , A Rabin-Court , H Kucukdereli , C Wu , JD Song , BB Lowell , GI Shulman

To read the full abstract: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019;116(27):13670–13679. doi: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31213533/In this paper, Perry et al. studied several animal models to disentangle the mechanism by which leptin suppresses hunger. In rats, the hyperphagia induced by a 48 h fast, or a hypoglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp, or uncontrolled diabetes, was completely s...