ArticlePostdoc journal : a journal of postdoctoral research and postdoctoral affairs2018
The Role of Leptin in Maintaining Plasma Glucose During Starvation.
Article in Postdoc journal : a journal of postdoctoral research and postdoctoral affairs, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Body composition in anorexia nervosa: Meta-analysis and meta-regression of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies.The International journal of eating disorders · 2019Pooled it
- Diabetes and its complications: molecular mechanisms, prevention and treatment.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026Review
- Adaptive Responses in Severe Acute Malnutrition: Endocrinology, Metabolomics, Mortality, and Growth.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Frozen Shoulder as a Metabolic and Immune Disorder: Potential Roles of Leptin Resistance, JAK-STAT Dysregulation, and Fibrosis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Inter-organ crosstalk during development and progression of type 2 diabetes mellitus.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2024Review
- Inter-organ metabolic interaction networks in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Review
- Effects of 10-Day Complete Fasting on Physiological Homeostasis, Nutrition and Health Markers in Male Adults.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Behavioral, Hormonal, and Serotonergic Responses to Different Restricted Feeding Schedules in Rats.International journal of tryptophan research : IJTR · 2022Article
- Physiological responses to leptin levels in lipodystrophy: a model for other hypoleptinemias?The Journal of clinical investigation · 2018Article
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Abstract
For 20 years it has been known that concentrations of leptin, a hormone produced by the white adipose tissue (WAT) largely in proportion to body fat, drops precipitously with starvation, particularly in lean humans and animals. The role of leptin to suppress the thyroid and reproductive axes during a prolonged fast has been well defined; however, the impact of leptin on metabolic regulation has been incompletely understood. However emerging evidence suggests that, in starvation, hypoleptinemia increases activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, promoting WAT lipolysis, increasing hepatic acetyl-CoA concentrations, and maintaining euglycemia. In addition, leptin may be largely responsible for mediating a shift from a reliance upon glucose metabolism (absorption and glycogenolysis) to fat metabolism (lipolysis increasing gluconeogenesis) which preserves substrates for the brain, heart, and other critical organs. In this way a leptin-mediated glucose-fatty acid cycle appears to maintain glycemia and permit survival in starvation.
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