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May 6, 1996 7:00 AM UTC

Progenitor researchers reported in Nature Medicine that leptin may play a direct role in reproduction and hematopoiesis (blood cell formation), in addition to its presumed role in obesity.

Different forms of the leptin receptor are found in different tissues, they said, with high levels of expression in very primitive hematopoietic cell populations, prostate, ovary, heart, liver and small intestine. ...