Neuroscience Meeting Brief 2: Leptin: A Trigger for Puberty?
- 29 November 1996
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 274 (5292) , 1466c-1467
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.274.5292.1466c
Abstract
Washington, D.C.—The protein famous for making fat mice thin, in part by signaling their brains that they've eaten enough, also seems to regulate an entirely different kind of appetite: the sex drive. Evidence presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting here indicates that leptin helps regulate sex hormone production. Indeed, it may even be the trigger for the onset of puberty.Keywords
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