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Leptin Treatment Rescues the Sterility of Genetically Obese ob/ob Males*
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Leptin, a hormone secreted from white adipose tissue, has been shown to normalize the body weight of ob/ob but not db/db mice as postulated by Coleman in his classical parabiosis experiments. The major effect of leptin is therefore to decrease food intake, thus resulting in a breakdown of fat stores. Recently, we have suggested that leptin plays a role in reproductive physiology based on the observation that leptin treatment but not food restriction rescues the sterility of ob/ob females. In the present communication, we treated sterile ob/ob males with leptin and asked whether fertility could be induced, thus selecting their reproductive ability as the endpoint of the experiment. Our results show that all food-restricted ob/ob males are unable to impregnate normal C57BL/6J females. However, all leptin-treated ob/ob males fertilized normal females mice that carried out normal pregnancies and deliveries, demonstrating that the reproductive capacity of ob/ob males was corrected only with leptin treatment. Furthermore, reproductive indices such as testicular weight and histology are normalized in leptin-treated animals. Therefore, as in ob/ob females, leptin plays a significant role in the male mouse reproductive pathways.
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“and corrects the sterility of leptin-deficient ob/ob mice (29, 30).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mounzih, K., Lu, R., & Chehab, F. F.
- Affiliations
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- ORCID
- Lu, Ronghua
- Venue
- Endocrinology
- Publisher
- The Endocrine Society
- Published
- 1997-03-01
- Volume
- 138
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1190-1193
- ISSN
- 0013-7227 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-7170
- OpenAlex
- W1997157145
- Cited by
- 482
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 26.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Endocrinology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- University of California, San Francisco
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HLS-53762)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Reproductive Medicine › Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Reproductive Medicine › Sperm and Testicular Function
- Keywords
- leptin, ob/ob mice, male infertility, reproductive capacity, dietary restriction, testicular histology, testicular weight, obesity, reproductive physiology
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Body Weight, Eating, Female, Fertility, Infertility, Male, Obesity, Organ Size, Proteins, Testis, Leptin, Mice
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