Leptin Enhances the Calcification of Vascular Cells

Quantification of coronary artery calcium using ultrafast computed tomography

1990 • 7,166 citations

Abnormal splicing of the leptin receptor in diabetic mice

1996 • 2,361 citations

Biological Action of Leptin as an Angiogenic Factor

1998 • 1,390 citations

The Leptin Receptor

1997 • 1,300 citations

Leptin in the regulation of immunity, inflammation, and hematopoiesis.

2000 • 886 citations

Anatomic localization of alternatively spliced leptin receptors (Ob-R) in mouse brain and other tissues

1997 • 771 citations

Leptin in the regulation of immunity, inflammation, and hematopoiesis

2000 • 756 citations

Leptin, the Product of Ob Gene, Promotes Angiogenesis

1998 • 721 citations

Leptin Acts on Human Marrow Stromal Cells to Enhance Differentiation to Osteoblasts and to Inhibit Differentiation to Adipocytes¹

1999 • 712 citations

Lipid Oxidation Products Have Opposite Effects on Calcifying Vascular Cell and Bone Cell Differentiation

1997 • 602 citations

Molecular Biology of Matrix Vesicles

1995 • 557 citations

TGF-beta 1 and 25-hydroxycholesterol stimulate osteoblast-like vascular cells to calcify.

1994 • 454 citations

Regulation of plasma leptin in mice: influence of age, high-fat diet, and fasting

1997 • 299 citations

Rapid killing of actinomycin D-treated tumor cells by human mononuclear cells. I. Effectors belong to the monocyte-macrophage lineage.

1984 • 271 citations

Smooth Muscle Cell Heterogeneity

1998 • 251 citations

Minimally modified low density lipoprotein-induced inflammatory responses in endothelial cells are mediated by cyclic adenosine monophosphate.

1993 • 251 citations

Diet-induced Diabetes Activates an Osteogenic Gene Regulatory Program in the Aortas of Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor-deficient Mice

1998 • 248 citations

Smooth Muscle Cell Origin and Its Relation to Heterogeneity in Development and Disease

1999 • 231 citations

cAMP Stimulates Osteoblast-like Differentiation of Calcifying Vascular Cells

1998 • 169 citations

Leptin Gene Expression Increases With Age Independent of Increasing Adiposity in Rats

1997 • 149 citations

Subcellular Localization and Internalization of the Four Human Leptin Receptor Isoforms

1999 • 139 citations

Expression of the Leptin Receptor during Germ Cell Development in the Mouse Testis*

2000 • 126 citations

Increased High Density Lipoprotein (HDL), Defective Hepatic Catabolism of ApoA-I and ApoA-II, and Decreased ApoA-I mRNA inob/ob Mice

1999 • 124 citations

Age-related changes in sex hormones affect the sex difference in serum leptin independently of changes in body fat

1999 • 119 citations

Tyrosine Phosphorylation of STAT3 by Leptin through Leptin Receptor in Mouse Metaphase 2 Stage Oocyte

1999 • 102 citations

Disruption of the Relationship between Fat Content and Leptin Levels with Aging in Humans¹

1998 • 102 citations

Atherosclerosis in genetically obese mice: The mutants obese, diabetes, fat, tubby, and lethal yellow

1994 • 101 citations

Melanin-concentrating hormone regulates leptin synthesis and secretion in rat adipocytes.

2000 • 95 citations

Coronary artery calcification: clinical significance and current methods of detection.

1993 • 80 citations

Aging and fasting regulation of leptin and hypothalamic neuropeptide Y gene expression

1998 • 74 citations

Expression of leptin receptor (Ob-R) in human atherosclerotic lesions: potential role in intimal neovascularization

2000 • 68 citations

Plasma leptin and insulin in C57Bl/6J mice on a high‐fat diet: relation to subsequent changes in body weight

1999 • 60 citations

Systemic administration of lipopolysaccharide increases plasma leptin levels

1999 • 57 citations

IGF-I regulation of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase in rat arterial smooth muscle

1997 • 41 citations

Embryonic alkaline phosphatase is expressed at M-phase in the spermatogenic lineage of the mouse

1992 • 40 citations