After its discovery as a key controller of metabolic function, leptin has been later extensively
implicated in additional functions including important modulatory activities on the innate and …

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Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is a highly lethal gynecological cancer for which overall
prognosis has remained poor over the past few decades. A number of theories have been …

Leptin is an adipocyte-derived hormone/cytokine that links nutritional status with
neuroendocrine and immune functions. In humans, leptin influences energy homeostasis …

The past few years of research on leptin have provided important information on the link
between metabolism and immune homeostasis. Adipocytes influence not only the endocrine …

Background There is evidence that adipocytokines play an important role in metabolism and
in inflammation. Because human metabolism dramatically changes in inflammatory bowel …

Rationale: Among patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease is a subset of
previously healthy women with a slender body morphotype, often with scoliosis and/or …

Leptin, a pleiotropic protein has long been recognized to play an important role in the
regulation of energy homeostasis, metabolism, neuroendocrine function, and other …

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an important disease of cattle caused by infection with
Mycobacterium bovis, a pathogen that may be extremely difficult to eradicate in the presence …

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are environmental microbes that cause a variety of
human diseases, particularly chronic lung infections. Despite the fact that NTM are …