Relationships between Placental GH Concentration and Maternal Smoking, Newborn Gender, and Maternal Leptin: Possible Implications for Birth Weight

Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue

1994 • 12,975 citations

Effects of Recombinant Leptin Therapy in a Child with Congenital Leptin Deficiency

1999 • 1,959 citations

Nonadipose tissue production of leptin: Leptin as a novel placenta-derived hormone in humans

1997 • 1,299 citations

Sexual Dimorphism in the Control of Growth Hormone Secretion*

1985 • 749 citations

Plasma Leptin Levels in Healthy Children and Adolescents: Dependence on Body Mass Index, Body Fat Mass, Gender, Pubertal Stage, and Testosterone*

1997 • 648 citations

What’s in a Name? In Search of Leptin’s Physiologic Role¹

1998 • 527 citations

Serum levels of insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) in healthy infants, children, and adolescents: the relation to IGF-I, IGF-II, IGFBP-1, IGFBP-2, age, sex, body mass index, and pubertal maturation.

1995 • 439 citations

Cigarette Smoking in Pregnancy: Its Influence on Birth Weight and Perinatal Mortality

1972 • 415 citations

Serum leptin levels in women with anorexia nervosa.

1996 • 400 citations

Regulation of in VivoGrowth Hormone Secretion by Leptin

1997 • 351 citations

Levels of Leptin in Maternal Serum, Amniotic Fluid, and Arterial and Venous Cord Blood: Relation to Neonatal and Placental Weight

1997 • 338 citations

The Physiology of Growth Hormones (GHs) in Pregnant Women and Partial Characterization of the Placental GH Variant*

1988 • 332 citations

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

1997 • 307 citations

Longitudinal changes in maternal serum leptin concentrations, body composition, and resting metabolic rate in pregnancy

1998 • 278 citations

Ontogeny of Leptin in Human Fetuses and Newborns: Effect of Intrauterine Growth Retardation on Serum Leptin Concentrations

1998 • 274 citations

Cigarette Smoking and Pregnancy I: Ovarian, Uterine and Placental Effects

1999 • 256 citations

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

1997 • 253 citations

Placental Growth Hormone Levels in Normal Pregnancy and in Pregnancies with Intrauterine Growth Retardation

1993 • 196 citations

Leptin Production and Release in the Duallyin VitroPerfused Human Placenta¹

2000 • 190 citations

In vivo proteolysis of serum insulin-like growth factor (IGF) binding protein-3 results in increased availability of IGF to target cells.

1994 • 184 citations

Cord Blood Leptin and Insulin-Like Growth Factor Levels are Independent Predictors of Fetal Growth

2001 • 180 citations

Placental Growth Hormone (GH), GH-Binding Protein, and Insulin-Like Growth Factor Axis in Normal, Growth-Retarded, and Diabetic Pregnancies: Correlations with Fetal Growth*

2000 • 155 citations

Regulation of maternal IGF-I by placental GH in normal and abnormal human pregnancies

1993 • 154 citations

Gender and Sexual Maturation-Dependent Contrasts in the Neuroregulation of Growth Hormone Secretion in Prepubertal and Late Adolescent Males and Females—A General Clinical Research Center-Based Study¹

2000 • 139 citations

Physiological role of human placental growth hormone

1998 • 129 citations

Effect of Birth Weight and Maternal Smoking on Cord Blood Leptin Concentrations of Full-Term and Preterm Newborns¹

1997 • 123 citations

Growth Factors and Intrauterine Growth Retardation. I. Serum Growth Hormone, Insulin-Like Growth Factor (IGF)-I, IGF-II, and IGF Binding Protein 3 Levels in Normally Grown and Gestation1

1996 • 104 citations

Circulating Concentrations of Nocturnal Leptin, Growth Hormone, and Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Increase before the Onset of Puberty in Agonadal Male Monkeys: Potential Signals for the Initiation of Puberty¹

2000 • 102 citations

Leptin Receptor in Human Term Placenta: in Situ Hybridization and Immunohistochemical Localization

1999 • 85 citations

Perinatal Growth Hormone (GH) Physiology: Effect of GH-Releasing Factor on Maternal and Fetal Secretion of Pituitary and Placental GH*

1990 • 69 citations

Syncytiotrophoblastic localization of the human growth hormone variant mRNA in the placenta

1993 • 67 citations

Maternal Growth Hormone Treatment Increases Placental Diffusion Capacity But Not Fetal or Placental Growth in Sheep*

1997 • 61 citations

Serum Leptin Levels Correlate with Growth Hormone Secretion and Body Fat in Children*

1999 • 60 citations

Human Growth Hormone Variant Produces Insulin-Like and Lipolytic Responses in Rat Adipose Tissue*

1991 • 58 citations

The Relationship between Growth Hormone Kinetics and Sarcopenia in Postmenopausal Women: The Role of Fat Mass and Leptin1

1998 • 57 citations

Glucose inhibits human placental GH secretion, in vitro.

1995 • 54 citations

Serum Leptin Response to the Acute and Chronic Administration of Growth Hormone (GH) to Elderly Subjects with GH Deficiency1

1999 • 53 citations

The Human Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone Transgenic Mouse as a Model of Modest Obesity: Differential Changes in Leptin Receptor (OBR) Gene Expression in the Anterior Pituitary and Hypothalamus after Fasting and OBR Localization in Somatotrophs*

1999 • 53 citations

Leptin is suppressed during infusion of recombinant human insulin-like growth factor I (rhIGF I) in normal rats

1999 • 48 citations

Acute leptin regulation in end-stage renal failure: The role of growth hormone and IGF-1

1998 • 47 citations

Plasma leptin influences gestational weight gain and postpartum weight retention

1998 • 46 citations

Purification and biochemical characterization of recombinant human placental growth hormone produced in Escherichia coli

1993 • 41 citations

Circulating leptin level and growth hormone response to stimulation tests in obese and normal children

1998 • 39 citations

Placental hormones during induced hypoglycaemia in pregnant women with insulin‐dependent diabetes mellitus: evidence of an active role for placenta in hormonal counter‐regulation

1998 • 33 citations

Immunoassay of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-Binding Protein-3 (IGFBP-3): New Means to Quantifying IGFBP-3 Proteolysis

2000 • 32 citations

Leptin concentrations in serum from a randomly recruited sample of 50- to 80-year-old men and women: positive association with plasma insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and IGF-binding protein-3 in lean, but not in obese, individuals

1998 • 31 citations

Prolactin, growth hormone and insulin‐like growth factor‐l in newborn children of smoking mothers*

1994 • 31 citations