. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: Appetite. 2012 Aug 10;61(1):111–118. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2012.08.006

Table 1.

Body composition and serum insulin in members of leptin-injected or vehicle-injected pairs of ob/ob mice.

	Leptin-injected Parabiont	Partner of leptin-injected	Member of vehicle injected pair
Preoperative wt (g)	43 ± 2	42 ± 2	42 ± 1
Carcass wt (g)	33 ± 2^A	37 ± 1^B	40 ± 1^C
Carcass fat (g)	16.0 ± 1.3^A	19.0 ± 0.9^B	23.3 ± 0.7^C
Calculated food intake (mg/24 hr)	443 ± 299^A	882 ± 260^A	1101 ± 162^B
Serum insulin (ng/ml)	1.1 ± 0.3^A	1.6 ± 0.3^A	14.0 ± 1.7^B

Data are means ± sem for mice from 5 pairs of leptin-injected ob/ob mice or 4 pairs of vehicle injected ob/ob mice. Values for a specific parameter that do not share a common superscript are significantly different at P<0.05. Mice received twice daily i.p. injections of 50 ug human recombinant leptin or vehicle for 11 days (Harris, Zhou, Weigle, & Kuijper, 1997)