Postnatal intracerebroventricular exposure to leptin causes an altered adult female phenotype.

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We investigated the effect of daily intracerebroventricular (ICV) leptin administration (neonatal age 2-7 days) on hypothalamic neuropeptides (neuropeptide Y, alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone) that regulate food intake, body weight (BW) gain, and the metabolic/hormonal profile in suckling (8 and 21 days) and adult rat (35, 60, 90, and 120 days). ICV leptin (0.16 mug.g BW(-1).dose(-1); n = 70) led to a...

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