[This study shows that (a) almost all of the breast cancers coexpress leptin and its two main isoforms of receptors, suggesting that the human epithelial breast cancer cells respond to leptin acting via an autocrine pathway; (b) high expression levels of leptin and leptin receptors are biological markers of a more differentiated phenotype; and that (c) OBR-S is an independent prognostic factor.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE