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of brown adipose tissue (BAT). Daily injections of leptin were started at the age of 6 weeks, when body weight, food intake and plasma leptin levels of transgenics were not different from control mice. Over the next 6 weeks, leptin treated transgenics showed the same excessive body weight gain as transgenic mice
Summary Leptin is an adipocyte-derived blood-borne satiety factor that acts on its cognate leptin receptor (Ob-R) in the hypothalamus, thereby regulating food intake and energy expenditure. To explore whether mutations in the Ob-R gene cause obesity in humans, we have searched for mutations in the gene for Ob-Rb
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