Leptin is an autocrine/paracrine regulator of wound healing
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- 15 August 2003
- journal article
- fj express-summaries
- Published by Wiley in The FASEB Journal
- Vol. 17 (13) , 1-15
- https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.03-0068fje
Abstract
Leptin, a 16 kDa pleiotropic cytokine primarily expressed in adipose tissue, has been shown to cause multiple systemic biological actions. Recently, leptin has also been documented as an important co...Keywords
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