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Role of leptin in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
(MDPI, 2021-06-30)
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which affects about a quarter of the global population, poses a substantial health and economic burden in all countries, yet there is no approved pharmacotherapy to treat this ...
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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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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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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, ...
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Sam68 Mediates the Activation of Insulin and Leptin Signalling in Breast Cancer Cells
(Public Library Science, 2016)
Obesity is a well-known risk factor for breast cancer development in postmenopausal women. High insulin and leptin levels seem to have a role modulating the growth of these tumours. Sam68 is an RNA-binding protein with ...
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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 ...