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Published online 17 January 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000120-4
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Leptin lizards
The 'obesity-preventing' hormone leptin has turned up in a very surprising place, Eleanor Lawrence reports.
Until now, the mammalian hormone 'leptin' has mostly been studied as a possible treatment for human obesity. But zoologists are starting to take an interest in leptin as an important regulator of body heat, and of fat and energy use in other vertebrates.
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