Nature Medicine
3, 952 - 953 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0997-952
The reproductive side of leptinFarid F. ChehabDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California 94143, USA Leptin's role in pregnancy may help unravel the mechanisms by which this protein regulates obesity in humans (pages 1029−1033).
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