Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Contact, publication, and social network information about Harvard faculty and fellows.

Receptors, Leptin

"Receptors, Leptin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Cell surface receptors for obesity factor (LEPTIN), a hormone secreted by the WHITE ADIPOCYTES. Upon leptin-receptor interaction, the signal is mediated through the JAK2/STAT3 pathway to regulate food intake, energy balance and fat storage.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Receptors, Leptin" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Receptors, Leptin" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 213 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2000 and 2004 and 2018
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
Related Networks
People
Explore
_
Similar Concepts
_
Top Journals 
_
Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.