The Scientist : Fat clue to leptin resistance [10/5/2004]

Email: Stuart Blackman - stuart.blackman@talk21.com
News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20040510-01

10 May 2004

A paper published in the May issue of Diabetes implicates triglycerides in the mechanism of leptin resistance. These fats, elevated in obesity, are what disrupt the transport of the hormone across the blood–brain barrier (BBB) to its site of action in the hypothalamus, according to the study.

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