For instance, the adipocytokine leptin activates Stat3 in hypothalamic neurons to promote the expression of the catabolic neuropeptide, propiomelanocortin, thereby regulating whole-body energy intake and metabolism.

Eleven Chinese military aircraft crossed the Taiwan Strait's median line or entered Taiwan’s air defence zone on Sunday, Taiwan's Defence Ministry said, as Beijing continues military activities close to the Chinese-claimed island.

The New English came to control Ireland — their ultimate expression was the powerful ascendancy which enjoyed exclusive political power in the country for more than a century, and which fought a dogged rearguard action against diminution of its power during the nineteenth century.

Techniques that have successfully identified ionic intermediates in solution have been applied to gas-phase pyrolyses.