Leptin Definition

Leptin Sentence Examples

• Leptin works to suppress the appetite while Grehlin works to increase the appetite.

• As of 2004 it is thought that obesity in humans may result in part from insensitivity to leptin.

• Axokine, a drug in development for treatment of ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), which showed promise in its action on the leptin pathway -- leptin is a hormone that signals your brain that you have eaten enough.