Leptin Is Present in Human Milk and Is Related to Maternal Plasma Leptin Concentration and Adiposity

Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue

1994 • 12,975 citations

Serum Immunoreactive-Leptin Concentrations in Normal-Weight and Obese Humans

1996 • 6,254 citations

A protein assembly-disassembly pathway in vitro that may correspond to sequential steps of synaptic vesicle docking, activation, and fusion

1993 • 1,893 citations

Correction of the sterility defect in homozygous obese female mice by treatment with the human recombinant leptin

1996 • 1,505 citations

Transient increase in obese gene expression after food intake or insulin administration

1995 • 1,102 citations

Leptin is a metabolic signal to the reproductive system.

1996 • 1,037 citations

Leptin: The Tale of an Obesity Gene

1996 • 987 citations

Endotoxin and cytokines induce expression of leptin, the ob gene product, in hamsters.

1996 • 864 citations

Early Onset of Reproductive Function in Normal Female Mice Treated with Leptin

1997 • 844 citations

Multiple Cytokines and Acute Inflammation Raise Mouse Leptin Levels: Potential Role in Inflammatory Anorexia

1997 • 798 citations

Evidence of free and bound leptin in human circulation. Studies in lean and obese subjects and during short-term fasting.

1996 • 552 citations

Regulation of Expression of ob mRNA and Protein by Glucocorticoids and cAMP

1996 • 497 citations

Circulating leptin in women: a longitudinal study in the menstrual cycle and during pregnancy

1997 • 467 citations

Hormones and Growth Factors in Milk

1993 • 399 citations

Leptin in Human Reproduction: Serum Leptin Levels in Pregnant and Lactating Women

1997 • 319 citations

Survey of the Conjugated Linoleic Acid Contents of Dairy Products

1995 • 312 citations

Placental Leptin: An Important New Growth Factor in Intrauterine and Neonatal Development?

1997 • 307 citations

Serum Leptin Concentration in Cord Blood: Relationship to Birth Weight and Gender

1997 • 253 citations

Genomic Structure and Promoter Analysis of the Human obese Gene

1996 • 245 citations

Evidence for Leptin Binding to Proteins in Serum of Rodents and Humans: Modulation With Obesity

1996 • 236 citations

Regulation of energy balance by leptin

2009 • 221 citations

Leptin Is Present in Human Cord Blood

1997 • 101 citations

Cloning and characterization of a human leptin receptor using a biologically active leptin immunoadhesin

1997 • 79 citations

Milk-borne hormones: possible tools of communication between mother and suckling.

1995 • 35 citations