Following are some interesting papers in the current issue of Neuron (Neuron, Vol. 51, Iss. 6, 2006).

Leptin in Energy Balance and Reward: Two Faces of the Same Coin?
Pages 678-680
Daniela Cota, Jason G. Barrera and Randy J. Seeley

Leptin Receptor Signaling in Midbrain Dopamine Neurons Regulates Feeding
Pages 801-810
Jonathan D. Hommel, Richard Trinko, Robert M. Sears, Dan Georgescu, Zong-Wu Liu, Xiao-Bing Gao, Jeremy J. Thurmon, Michela Marinelli and Ralph J. DiLeone

Leptin Regulation of the Mesoaccumbens Dopamine Pathway
Pages 811-822
Stephanie Fulton, Pavlos Pissios, Ramon Pinol Manchon, Linsey Stiles, Lauren Frank, Emmanuel N. Pothos, Eleftheria Maratos-Flier and Jeffrey S. Flier

Thoughts for Food: Brain Mechanisms and Peripheral Energy Balance
Pages 691-702
Alfonso Abizaid, Qian Gao and Tamas L. Horvath

By Jianping at PBRC/LSU
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Jianping Ye, MD
Professor of Molecular Biology
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Louisiana State University System
6400 Perkins Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
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E-mail: yej@pbrc.edu