<span>Leptin, a hormone predominantly made by adipose cells that helps to regulate energy balance by inhibiting hunger, is the hormone secreted into the bloodstream by fatty tissue to signal the hypothalamus that the body has enough food.</span>
A compound is organic if it contains carbon covalently bonded to other atoms. Most often, the other atoms include hydrogen, oxygen, and/or nitrogen. A few carbon compounds, such as simple oxides (e.g. CO2) and cyanides (e.g. KCN) are excluded arbitrarily.
