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Possible Role of Leptin in Atopic Dermatitis: A Literature Review
(MDPI, 2021-11-05)
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is the most frequent chronic inflammatory skin disease, and its incidence has been rapidly increasing in developed countries in the last years. AD presents a high degree of heterogeneity due to biases ...
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Leptin, both bad and good actor in cancer
(MDPI, 2021)
Leptin is an important regulator of basal metabolism and food intake, with a pivotal role in obesity. Leptin exerts many different actions on various tissues and systems, including cancer, and is considered as a linkage ...
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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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Role of Leptin as a Link between Asthma and Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
(MDPI, 2022-12-29)
Asthma and obesity are considered as highly prevalent diseases with a great impact on public health. Obesity has been demonstrated to be an aggravating factor in the pathogenesis of asthma. Adipose tissue secretes ...
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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 ...