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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Gen Comp Endocrinol. 2012 Jul 25;178(3):562–572. doi: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.07.011

Table 2.

Effects of Recombinant Leptin Rescue on Zebrafish Development

# embryos
with slight
gross defects (%)
# embryos
with moderate
gross defects (%)
# embryos
with severe
gross defects (%)
# embryos examined
at 48-50 hpf (# embryos
with wild type phenotype)
Uninjected Control 0 (0.0%) 1 (2.0%) 0 (0.0%) 49 (98%)
lepMO1 (0.5 mM, 2 nl) 3 (7.7%) 20 (51.3%) 16 (41.0%) 0 (0%)
lepMO1 (0.5 mM, 2 nl) +
1:25 zleptin (40 nM, 2nl)
1 (2.3%) 25 (56.8%) 18 (40.9%) 0 (0%)
lepMO1 (0.5 mM, 2 nl) +
1:4 zleptin (7.5 μM, 2nl)
5 (14.7%) 28 (82.3%) 1 (3.0%) 0 (0%)
lepMO1 (0.5 mM, 2 nl) +
1:1 zleptin (30 μM, 2nl)
48 (70.6%) 19 (27.9%) 1 (1.5%) 0 (0%)