Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: In order to determine the plasmatic levels of leptin in adult Wistar rats (90 days +7 days) which had undergone specific types of stress, a prospective study was done in which the stimulus was presented in the proestrus stage and the samples, recovered by decapitation 24 h after the initial stimulus, were centrifuged and stored for analysis of leptin by radioimmunoassay (RIA).Methods: The rats were divided into four groups: Group I (...