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ReviewGene therapy2011

Pivotal role of leptin-hypothalamus signaling in the etiology of diabetes uncovered by gene therapy: a new therapeutic intervention?

S P Kalra

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Review in Gene therapy, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Benefits of leptin therapy in HIV patients.Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism · 2012
    Article
  6. Leptin therapy, insulin sensitivity, and glucose homeostasis.Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism · 2012
    Article
  7. A case for new therapy for diabetes, is it leptin?Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism · 2012
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  8. Review
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5 · Who and what money

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

S P KalraDepartment of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0244, USA. skalra@mbi.ufl.edu
University of Florida · US

Funding

NPY AND APPETITE--CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BASISR01DK037273 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI KALRA, SATYA P · 1986 to 2005
$1.9M
NEUROTOXINS, NEURAL INJURY, AND OBESITYR01NS032727 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI KALRA, PUSHPA S. · 1995 to 2003
$1.1M
NIDDK NIH HHS DK 37273NINDS NIH HHS NS32727
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The incidence of diabetes mellitus has soared to epidemic proportion worldwide. The debilitating chronic hyperglycemia is caused by either lack of insulin as in diabetes type 1 or its ineffectiveness as in diabetes type 2. Frequent replacement of insulin with or without insulin analogs for optimum glycemic control are the conventional cumbersome therapies. Recent application of leptin gene transfer technology has uncovered the participation of adipocytes-derived leptin-dependent hypothalamic neural signaling in glucose homeostasis and demonstrated that a breakdown in this communication due to leptin insufficiency in the hypothalamus underlies the etiology of chronic hyperglycemia. Reinstatement of central leptin sufficiency by hyperleptinemia produced either by intravenous leptin infusion or a single systemic injection of recombinant adenovirus vector encoding leptin gene suppressed hyperglycemia and evoked euglycemia only transiently in rodent models of diabetes type 1. In contrast, stable restoration of leptin sufficiency, solely in the hypothalamus, with biologically active leptin transduced by an intracerebroventicular injection of recombinant adeno-associated virus vector encoding leptin gene (rAAV-lep) abolished hyperglycemia and imposed euglycemia through the extended duration of experiment by stimulating glucose disposal in the periphery in models of diabetes type 1. Further, similar hypothalamic leptin transgene expression abrogated chronic hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia, the predisposing risk factors of the age and environmentally acquired diabetes type 2, and instituted euglycemia by independently activating relays that stimulate glucose metabolism and repress hyperinsulinemia and improve insulin sensitivity in the periphery. Consequently, this durable antidiabetic efficacy of one time rAAV-lep neurotherapy offers a potential novel substitute for insulin therapy following preclinical trials in subhuman primates and humans.

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AnimalsDiabetes MellitusGenetic TherapyHumansHyperglycemiaHypothalamusLeptinRatsSignal TransductionTransgenesLeptin

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PMID21209624
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