Up-Regulation of placental leptin by human chorionic gonadotropin
Leptin, the 16,000 molecular weight protein product of the obese gene, was originally considered as an adipocyte-derived signaling moleculeforthe central control of metabolism. However, leptin has been suggested to be involved in other functions during pregnancy, particularly in placenta, in which i...
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