Starvation leptin levels

Let us pause to review the big picture. Normally, starvation results in low plasma leptin, while obesity results in increased plasma leptin. These two extremes in hormone concentrations provoke different responses by the hypothalamus Staiv ation in the normal mouse results in low plasma leptin, where low levels of leptin binding to the leptin receptor (in the hypothalamus) provoke a signal in the hypothalamus that results in Increases in neuropeptide Y. The hypothalamus Is a major site of production of the hormone, neuropeptide Y, Neuropeptide Y contains 36 ammo acids and has the following structure the one-letter abbreviations for the amino acids are used) ... 

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