DOI: 10.1055/s-00000025

Hormone and Metabolic Research

Issue 12 · Volume 28 · December 1996 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-6654

Review

619
Campfield, L. A.; Smith, F. J.; Burn, P.: The OB Protein (Leptin) Pathway - A Link Between Adipose Tissue Mass and Central Neural Networks

Minireviews

633
Gicaobino, J.-P.: Role of the β3-Adrenoceptor in the Control of Leptin Expression
638
Saladin, R.; Staels, B.; Auwerx, J.; Briggs, M.: Regulation of OB Gene Expression in Rodents and Humans
642
Rohner-Jeanrenaud, F.; Cusin, I.; Sainsbury, A.; Zakrzowska, K. E.; Jeanrenaud, B.: The Loop System Between Neuropeptide Y and Leptin in Normal and Obese Rodents

Originals Basic

649
Rock, F. L.; Altmann, S. W.; van Heek, M.; Kastelein, R. A.; Bazan, J. F.: The Liptin Haemopoietic Cytokine Fold is Stabilized by an Intrachain Disulfide Bond
653
Van Heek, M.; Mullins, D. E.; Wirth, M. A.; Graziano, M. P.; Fawzi, A. B.; Compton, D. S.; France, C. F.; Hoos, L. M.; Casale, R. L.; Sybertz, E. J.; Strader, C. D.; Davis, H. R.: The Relationship of Tissue Localization, Distribution and Turnover to Feeding After Intraperitoneal 125I-Leptin Administration to ob/ob and db/db Mice
659
Hwa, J. J.; Ghibaudi, L.; Compton, D.; Fawzi, A. B.; Strader, C. D.: Intracerebroventricular Injection of Leptin Increases Thermogenesis and Mobilizes Fat Metabolism in ob/ob Mice
664
Seeley, R. J.; van Dijk, G.; Campfield, L. A.; Smith, F. J.; Burn, P.; Nelligan, J. A.; Bell, S. M.; Baskin, D. G.; Woods, S. C.; Schwartz, M. W.: Intraventricular Leptin Reduces Food Intake and Body Weight of Lean Rats but Not Obese Zucker Rats
669
Igel, M.; Becker, W.; Herberg, L.; Joost, H.-G.: Evidence that Reduced Leptin Levels, but Not an Aberrant Sequence of Leptin or its Receptor, Contribute to the Obesity Syndrome in NON Mice
674
Bodkin, N. L.; Nicolson, M.; Ortmeyer, H. K.; Hansen, B. C.: Hyperleptinemia: Relationship to Adiposity and Insulin Resistance in the Spontaneously Obese Rhesus Monkey
679
Mizuno, T.; Bergen, H.; Kleopoulos, S.; Bauman, W. A.; Mobbs, C. V.: Effects of Nutritional Status and Aging on Leptin Gene Expression in Mice: Importance of Glucose
685
Hardie, L. J.; Guilhot, N.; Trayhurn, P.: Regulation of Leptin Production in Cultured Mature White Adipocytes
690
Hube, F.; Lietz, U.; Igel, M.; Jensen, P. B.; Tornqvist, H.; Joost, H.-G.; Hauner, H.: Difference in Leptin mRNA Levels Between Omental and Subcutaneous Abdominal Adipose Tissue From Obese Humans
694
Fawzi, A. B.; Zhang, H.; van Heek, M.; Graziano, M. P.: Purification of Milligram Quantities of Human Leptin From Recombinant E. Coli

Originals Clinical

698
Wing, R. R.; Sinha, M. K.; Considine, R. V.; Lang, W.; Caro, J. F.: Relationship Between Weight Loss Maintenance and Changes in Serum Leptin Levels
704
Miell, J. P.; Engloro, P.; Blum, W. F.: Dexamethasone Induces an Acute and Sustained Rise in Circulating Leptin Levels in Normal Human Subjects
708
Kiess, W.; Englaro, P.; Hanitsch, S.; Rascher, W.; Attanasio, A.; Blum, W. F.: High Leptin Concentrations in Serum of Very Obese Children are Further Stimulated by Dexamethasone
711
Leal-Cerro, A.; Considine, R. V.; Peino, R.; Venegas, E.; Astorga, R.; Casanueva, F. F.; Dieguez, C.: Serum Immunoreactive-Leptin Levels are Increased in Patients With Cushing's Syndrome
714
Deuschle, M.; Blum, W. F.; Englaro, P.; Schweiger, U.; Weber, B.; Pflaum, C.-D.; Heuser, I.: Plasma Leptin in Depressed Patients and Healthy Controls
718
Scholz, G. H.; Englaro, P.; Thiele, I.; Scholz, M.; Klusmann, T.; Kellner, K.; Rascher, W.; Blum, W. F.: Dissociation of Serum Leptin Concentration and Body Fat Content During Long Term Dietary Intervention in Obese Individuals
724
Iida, M.; Murakami, T.; Yamada, M.; Sei, M.; Kuwajima, M.; Mizuno, A.; Noma, Y.; Aono, T.; Shima, K.: Hyperleptinemia in Chronic Renal Failure
728
Brabant, G.; Horn, R.; Mayr, B.; von zur Mühlen, A.; Honegger, J.; Buchfelder, M.: Serum Leptin Levels Following Hypothalamic Surgery
732
Bauman, W. A.; Spungen, A. M.; Zhong, Y.-G.; Mobbs, C. V.: Plasma Leptin is Directly Related to Body Adiposity in Subjects with Spinal Cord Injury
737
Kellerer, M.; Rett, K.; Renn, W.; Groop, L.; Häring, H. U.: Circulating TNF-alpha and Leptin Levels in Offspring of NIDDM Patients Do Not Correlate to Individual Insulin Sensitivity

Hypothesis

744
Ur, E.; Grossman, A.; Després, J.-P.: Obesity Results as a Consequence of Glucocorticoid Induced Leptin Resistance

Short Communications

748
Rock, F. L.; Peterson, D.; Weig, B. C.; Kastelein, R. A.; Bazan, J. F.: Binding of Leptin to the Soluble Ectodomain of Recombinant Leptin Receptor
751
Takahashi, M.; Funahashi, T.; Shimomura, I.; Miyuoka, K.; Matsuzawa, Y.: Plasma Leptin Levels and Body Fat Distribution
753
Tsuruo, Y.; Sato, I.; Iida, M.; Murakami, T.; Ishimura, K.; Shima, K.: Immunohistochemical Detection of the ob Gene Product (Leptin) in Rat White and Brown Adipocytes