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Discuss the Developmental Progression of Totipotency, Multipotency, and Embryonic Stem

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Discuss the developmental progression of totipotency, multipotency, and embryonic stem cells.Why are stem cells so interesting to medical researchers ?


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Leptin

A hormone produced by fat cells that regulates fat storage in the body and signals the brain about hunger and satiety.

Hunger-Dampening

The process or an effect that reduces or suppresses the feeling of hunger.

Fat Cells

Cells that store energy in the form of fat, also known as adipocytes; they are found in the adipose tissue.

Anorexia Nervosa

An eating disorder in which a person (usually an adolescent female) diets and becomes significantly (15 percent or more) underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve.

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