Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Leptin induces TNFα-dependent inflammation in acquired generalized lipodystrophy and combined Crohn’s disease

  • Jörn F. Ziegler,
  • Chotima Böttcher,
  • Marilena Letizia,
  • Cansu Yerinde,
  • Hao Wu,
  • Inka Freise,
  • Yasmina Rodriguez-Sillke,
  • Ani K. Stoyanova,
  • Martin E. Kreis,
  • Patrick Asbach,
  • Desiree Kunkel,
  • Josef Priller,
  • Ioannis Anagnostopoulos,
  • Anja A. Kühl,
  • Konstanze Miehle,
  • Michael Stumvoll,
  • Florian Tran,
  • Broder Fredrich,
  • Michael Forster,
  • Andre Franke,
  • Christian Bojarski,
  • Rainer Glauben,
  • Britt-Sabina Löscher,
  • Britta Siegmund,
  • Carl Weidinger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13559-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The adipokine leptin modulates intestinal inflammation in mice. Here the authors describe a patient with inflammatory bowel disease and lipodystrophy, providing evidence that leptin aggravates intestinal inflammation with proinflammatory effects on leukocytes that are reversible by TNFα blockade.