LEP, leptin, 3952

N. diseases: 931; N. variants: 15
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Higher plasma leptin and lower C-peptide levels are associated with depression: A cross-sectional study. 30236760 2019
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These results affirm the need to implement depression screening and targeted treatment interventions for patient subgroups at highest risk of untreated symptoms, such as men with LEP. 31667737 2019
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Depression in underweight BMI groups of both genders was associated with a decrease in serum leptin and an increase in cortisol. 31347937 2019
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Besides the well-known leptin and ghrelin, other biomarkers such as BDNF, VEGF, NPY, orexin, and the recent discovered nesfatin-1 seem to be involved in neurovegetative changes in depressive disorders playing a role in the regulation of affective states, stress reactions and sleep patterns. 30870775 2019
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The findings indicate that P-leptin levels are associated with depressive symptom severity in young women; however, the association is linked to other factors, which challenges its usefulness as a biomarker for depression in clinical psychiatry. 30562581 2019
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE On analysis of inflammatory and metabolic markers, a statistically significant negative correlation was noted between change in leptin levels and change in depression scores in the pioglitazone group (r = -0.61, p = 0.047) but not in the placebo group, the significance of which is unclear as the study failed to demonstrate antidepressant efficacy of pioglitazone over placebo. 30699881 2019
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Depression scores correlated with serum leptin (r = 0.29, [95%CI: 0.14-0.42]; r = 0.32, [95%CI: 0.18-0.45]) and FLI (r = 0.30, [95%CI: 0.15-0.43]; r = 0.32, [95%CI: 0.17-0.45]; P < 0.0001 for all). 31404477 2019
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Data of patients with a current depressive and/or anxiety disorder came from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety, a large, multi-site naturalistic cohort study (n = 1460).Thirty-six biomarkers (e.g. leptin, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, tryptophan) were measured, as well as sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. 29860945 2019
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Plasma BDNF (pBDNF) and blood leptin levels were obtained along with a 17-item Hamilton Depression Scale rating (HDRS-17) score at every visit. 31465895 2019
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our results indicate that leptin has antidepressant-like effects in an inflammatory model of depression with the contribution, at least partial, of dopamine receptors. 30949073 2019
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Leptin may influence these mechanisms and consequently constitute a possible target for novel therapeutic approaches to the treatment of depression. 30367065 2018
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Small clinical studies suggest depression is associated with alterations in adiponectin and leptin, adipocyte-derived secretory proteins involved in metabolic regulation; however, longitudinal data on these association are lacking. 30005278 2018
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Here we consider the links between co-morbid metabolic syndrome and depression, focusing on biomarkers including leptin and ghrelin in combination with assessing gut microbiota composition, as a potential tool to help identify individual differences in depressed population. 30405455 2018
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE We suggest that decrease in BDNF by the activated NLRP3 inflammasomes in astrocytes is the key pathological event of the depressive-like behaviors induced by SD, while the combined treatment with fluoxetine and leptin improves therapeutic outcome for the depression induced by SD. 30666218 2018
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In this first study, behavioral analyses of an unpredictable stress model dealing with the actions of a sub-chronic administration of orexin-A (ORX-A) and the anti-hunger neuropeptide, i.e., leptin (LEP) within the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic (SCH) nucleus, were conducted on the valuable hibernating rodent (hamster; Mesocricetus auratus) model noted for its distinct depression and anxiety states. 26993304 2017
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Depression was associated with a decrease and increase in leptin respectively in normal-overweight and obese men and women diabetes patients. 28197877 2017
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The relationship between serum serotonin concentration and depression is well known, but there are no enough data regarding the serum change of leptin and adiponectin. 28224268 2017
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Depression has been shown to be associated with elevated leptin levels, low-grade inflammation and insulin resistance. 29190710 2017
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE These results demonstrate that leptin resistance elicits an obesity phenotype that is characterized by peripheral immune changes and depressive-like behaviors in rats, supporting the concept that co-morbid obesity and depressive illness develop as a continuum resulting from changes in the peripheral endocrine and metabolic milieu. 27743935 2017
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In view of these previous observations, the goal of this review will be to discuss the mechanisms through which leptin facilitates cognition and behavior, as well as to dissect the loci at which leptin resistance leads to impairments in hippocampal synaptic plasticity, including the development of cognitive deficits and increased risk of depressive illness in metabolic disorders such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). 28267584 2017
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Recently, a biological link between leptin resistance and depression has been proposed. 25629253 2015
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease PSYGENET Is there a role for leptin in the reduction of depression symptoms during weight loss therapy in obese adolescent girls and boys? 25629253 2015
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease PSYGENET Our results suggest an involvement of leptin in antidepressant action and cognitive function in depression with genetic polymorphisms in the leptin gene, decreased leptin gene expression and leptin deficiency in serum being risk factors for resistance to antidepressant therapy in depressed patients. 23026132 2013
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease PSYGENET Selective deletion of leptin receptors in adult hippocampus induces depression-related behaviours. 22932068 2013
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our results suggest an involvement of leptin in antidepressant action and cognitive function in depression with genetic polymorphisms in the leptin gene, decreased leptin gene expression and leptin deficiency in serum being risk factors for resistance to antidepressant therapy in depressed patients. 23026132 2013