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Role of leptin in inflammation and vice versa
(2020-08-16)
Inflammation is an essential immune response for the maintenance of tissue homeostasis. In a general sense, acute and chronic inflammation are different types of adaptive response that are called into action when other ...
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Obesity as a Risk Factor for Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease: The Role of Leptin
(MDPI AG, 2022)
Obesity is a growing worldwide health problem, affecting many people due to excessive saturated fat consumption, lack of exercise, or a sedentary lifestyle. Leptin is an adipokine secreted by adipose tissue that increases ...
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Leptin and Nutrition in Gestational Diabetes
(MPDI, 2020-07-02)
Leptin is highly expressed in the placenta, mainly by trophoblastic cells, where it has an important autocrine trophic effect. Moreover, increased leptin levels are found in the most frequent pathology of pregnancy: ...
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Sam68 mediates leptin signaling and action in human granulosa cells: possible role in leptin resistance in PCOS
(BioScientifica, 2020)
Introduction: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a complex metabolic disorder associated with ovulatory dysfunction, hyperandrogenism, obesity, and insulin resistance, that leads to subfertility. Sam68 is an RNA-binding ...
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Stem cells and COVID-19: are the human amniotic cells a new hope for therapies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus?
(BMC, 2021)
A new coronavirus respiratory disease (COVID-19) caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, surprised the entire world, producing social, economic, and health problems. The COVID-19 triggers a lung infection with a multiple proinflammatory ...
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Human amniotic membrane conditioned medium inhibits proliferation and modulates related microRNAs expression in hepatocarcinoma cell
(2019-10-02)
The placental stem cells have called the focus of attention for their therapeutic potential to treat diferent diseases, including cancer. There is plenty evidence about the antiproliferative, antiangiogenic and ...
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Stem cells and COVID-19: are the human amniotic cells a new hope for therapies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus?
(BMC, 2021-03-01)
A new coronavirus respiratory disease (COVID-19) caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, surprised the entire world, producing social, economic, and health problems. The COVID-19 triggers a lung infection with a multiple proinflammatory ...
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Leptin action in normal and pathological pregnancies
(2018)
Leptin is now considered an important signalling molecule of the reproductive system, as it regulates the production of gonadotrophins, the blastocyst formation and implantation, the normal placentation, as well as the ...
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Obesity and Breast Cancer: Role of Leptin
(2019-07-18)
Obesity-related breast cancer is an important threat that affects especially post-menopausal women. The link between obesity and breast cancer seems to be relying on the microenvironment generated at adipose tissue level, ...