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Lowered leptin slims immune response

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The decrease in leptin induced by starvation causes immune suppression, further demonstrating that falling and rising leptin levels have major, and quite distinct, physiologic consequences.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, 02215, Massachusetts, USA

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