TY - JOUR AU - Maymó, Julieta Lorena AU - Pérez Pérez, Antonio AU - Maskin, Bernardo AU - Dueñas, José Luis AU - Calvo, Juan Carlos AU - Sánchez Margalet, Victor AU - Varone, Cecilia Lorena PY - 2012 DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0046216 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10668/730 T2 - PLoS ONE AB - Pleiotropic effects of leptin have been identified in reproduction and pregnancy, particularly in the placenta, where it works as an autocrine hormone. In this work, we demonstrated that human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) added to JEG-3 cell line or... LA - en PB - PLoS ONE KW - Pleiotropic KW - reproduction KW - pregnancy KW - placenta KW - endogenous KW - leptin KW - Medical Subject Headings::Anatomy::Embryonic Structures::Placenta KW - Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Biological Factors::Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins::Adipokines::Leptin KW - Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists::Hormones::Peptide Hormones::Gonadotropins::Chorionic Gonadotropin TI - The Alternative Epac/cAMP Pathway and the MAPK Pathway Mediate hCG Induction of Leptin in Placental Cells TY - research article ER -