Clinical significance of Gaucher cells in cerebrospinal fluid
Clinical significance of Gaucher cells in cerebrospinal fluid
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脑脊液中戈谢细胞的临床意义
DOI:
10.1111/j.1651-2227.1999.tb01280.x
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发表时间:
1999
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影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
A. Fujita
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文献类型:
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作者:
N. Sakura;N. Mizoguchi;H. Ueda;A. Fujita
4 vs 6.9 3.7, p< 0.001; suprailiac skinfold 13.6 6.5 vs 7.9 5, p< 0.001). In prepubertal girls the mean serum leptin concentration was 2.52 2.11 ng ml ÿ1, which was lower than in pubertal girls (4.44 3.58 ng ml ÿ1; p< 0.001). For the combined group (prepubertal and pubertal girls), the serum leptin concentration was correlated with body weight (r = 0.53;p< 0.001), BMI (r = 0.58;p< 0.001), triceps skinfold ( r = 0.53;p< 0.001), subscapular skinfold (r = 0.62; p< 0.001) and suprailiac skinfold (r = 0.60;p< 0.001) measurements. A steady increase in leptin concentration was seen, parallel to the increase in BMI and the thickness of the fat in various regions of the body; however, the best correlation was found between the subscapular fat thickness and leptin concentration (Table 2). These data are similar to those published by Hassink et al (3), who found a strong correlation between leptin and the BMI as well as between leptin and arm fat in a combined group of children (obese and normal weight). Moreover, leptin concentrations, independent of adiposity, were found to vary with the Tanner stage. It has been hypothesized (3) that children manifest a relative “leptin resistance” to support increased growth and development of their reproductive capacity. In our data the arm fat thickness also correlated closely with leptin concentration ( r = 0.54), but this correlation was slightly weaker than that with subscapular fat thickness. The influence of proper nutritional status on the onset of puberty was expressed in a theory that links the critical body mass to the activation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis (4). Since leptin receptors are found in the hypothalamus and other parts of the brain (5), as well as in the ovary (6), and the exogenous leptin treatment of ob/ob mice reverses their obesity and restores fertility, the product of the ob gene (1) is a viable candidate as a permissive signal that allows puberty to proceed. In our study we have clearly shown that serum leptin concentration correlates strongly with the thickness of the skinfolds in various regions of the body as well as with the BMI, and therefore we can conclude that leptin is a very good biochemical marker of nutritional status in girls during puberty.