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Intrigued by the connection between sleep and BMI, and by recent studies showing that sleep deprivation in laboratory settings can cause a decrease in serum levels of leptin, a hormone known to control appetite, Emmanuel Mignot and colleagues set out to study the levels of various hormones known to regulate appetite and energy expenditure under “real life” conditions.
Leptin, ghrelin, and adiponectin were square-root transformed and insulin log transformed based on the distribution of residuals from the multivariate regression models.
We had previously shown that fasting could regulate hypothalamic gene expression in insulin-deficient mice even though in these mice fasting did not influence plasma leptin or insulin [ 5 ] . Since adrenalectomy blocked the fasting-induced reduction in melanocortin tone in diabetic mice (as it had in euglycemic mice in the first study), these results suggest that effects of fasting on melanocortin tone in diabetic mice may be mediated at least in part by a rise in plasma corticosterone (itself possibly secondary to the reduction in plasma leptin).
This year, researchers in Cambridge, England, found an inbred family whose members all lacked the gene for producing leptin.
Leptin, a peptide hormone secreted from white adipocytes, is implicated in the regulation of food intake and energy balance.