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MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Volume 14, Issue 11-12, Pages 741-751Publisher
FEINSTEIN INST MED RES
DOI: 10.2119/2008-00058.Rabe
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaf [BR 2151/4-1]
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Obesity is associated with on array of health problems in adult and pediatric populations. Understanding the pathogenesis of obesity and its metabolic sequelae has advanced rapidly over the past decades. Adipose tissue represents an active endocrine organ that, in addition to regulating fat mass and nutrient homeostasis, releases a large number of bioactive mediators (adipokines) that signal to organs of metabolic importance including brain, liver, skeletal muscle, and the immune system-thereby modulating hemostasis, blood pressure, lipid and glucose metabolism, inflammation, and atherosclerosis, In the present review, we summarize current data on the effect of the adipose tissue-derived hormones adiponectin, chemerin, leptin, omentin, resistin, retinol binding protein 4, tumor necrosis factor-alpha. and interleukin-6, vaspin, and visfatin on insulin resistance.
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