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Nature 392, 330-331 (26 March 1998) | doi:10.1038/32769

Human physiology:  Life without leptin

Stephen O'Rahilly1

The detailed study of nature's experiments on humans has an impressive track record in the field of physiology. In previous centuries such studies usually required a bizarre injury to expose the previously concealed organs of an unfortunate patient to the eyes of a curious physician.