Population
24 anesthetized male Sprague-Dawley rats
Comparison
Leptin vs Vehicle treatment
Design
Preclinical
Follow-up
3 hours
Authors
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Should not change clinical practice; hypothesis-generating for region-specific sympathetic control by leptin.
Leptin induces regional increases in sympathetic nerve activity that respond non-uniformly to baroreflex activation, indicating distinct functional roles for renal versus brown adipose tissue sympathetic fibers.
Hausberg et al. (2002) studied this question.
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