Obesity and osteoarthritis: is leptin the link?

Arthritis Rheum. 2009 Oct;60(10):2858-60. doi: 10.1002/art.24862.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Biomechanical Phenomena / physiology
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Humans
  • Leptin / genetics
  • Leptin / metabolism*
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Knockout
  • Obesity / complications
  • Obesity / metabolism*
  • Osteoarthritis / epidemiology
  • Osteoarthritis / metabolism*
  • Osteoarthritis, Knee / epidemiology
  • Osteoarthritis, Knee / metabolism
  • Receptors, Leptin / metabolism
  • Risk Factors

Substances

  • Leptin
  • Receptors, Leptin