Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Leptin, the product of the obese (ob) gene is secreted predominantly, but not exclusively, from adipose tissue. Fetal plasma concentrations of leptin increase with gestational age in conjunction with an increase in fetal adipose tissue deposition and mRNA abundance for leptin and UCP-1. The present study aimed to determine the effect of chronic fetal leptin infusion on UCP-1 and voltage dependent anion channel (VDAC; located on the outer mitochondrial membrane) a...