Review Article
Leptin Promotes Glioblastoma
Table 1
Summary of the Literature: leptin’s role in cancer promotion*.
| Cancer type | Antiapoptosis | Proliferation | Migration | Angiogenesis |
| Bone | | 24 | | | Breast | 28, 46 | 27, 56 | 23, 65 | 38, 69 | Cartilage | | | 32 | | Colon | 48 | 57, 58 | 20, 62, 64 | 58 | Endometrial | 34 | 30, 31, 34 | | | Esophageal | 51 | | | | Gallbladder | | 53 | 53 | | Gastric | | 25, 59 | | | Glioma | 77 | | 74 | | Kidney | | 29 | | | Large B-cell lymphoma | 33 | | | | Leukemia | 47 | 47 | | 71 | Liver | 52 | 41, 52 | 26 | 70 | Lung | 53 | | | | Neuroblastoma | 49 | 49 | | | Ovarian | | 55 | | | Prostate | 50 | 50 | 37, 39, 40 | | Thyroid | 36 | 36 | 63 | 37 | Uterine | | | | 68 |
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*Numbers correspond to works cited.
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