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University researchers reported in Nature that leptin's main role may be regulation of the neuroendocrine response to starvation. They reported that mice deprived of food and then given recombinant leptin showed blunted endocrine changes compared to the normal response to starvation. In male mice, changes in adrenal, thyroid, and gonadal hormones were substantially prevented by injection of leptin twice daily. In female mice, leptin injections prevented the delay of ovulation that is a response to starvation. ...