Specific Subpopulations of Hypothalamic Leptin Receptor-Expressing Neurons Mediate the Effects of Early Developmental Leptin Receptor Deletion on Energy Balance

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank MedImmune, Inc. and James Trevaskis, PhD and Christopher Rhodes, PhD for the gift of leptin. We thank members of the Myers and Olson labs for helpful discussions. Research support was provided by the Michigan Diabetes Research Center (NIH P3 0 DK020572, including the Molecular Genetics, Animal Phenotyping, and Clinical Cores), the American Diabetes Association (MGM), the Marilyn H. Vincent Foundation (MGM), the NIH (MGM: D K05673 1; ACR:DK071212; MBA: DK097861), the BBSRC (LKH: BB/NO17838/1) and WellcomeTrust (LKH: 098012).Peer reviewedPublisher PD