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Giving young rats nicotine through a pellet didn't change their leptin hormone levels, whether they had eaten or just drunk sugar water.
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Scientists gave young rats a nicotine pellet and checked their leptin levels before and after giving them sugar water — and found no change, meaning the nicotine didn’t affect the hormone that controls hunger.
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