The link between obesity and diabetes is strong as well as complex. Fat cells produce many circulating regulators of insulin sensitivity, including pro-inflammatory cytokines. In rodents, resistin is produced by adipose tissue, and is a significant regulator of glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity. In humans, resistin is derived made mainly from macrophages. Given the emerging interrelationship between inflammation and metabolic disease, hyperresistinemia may be a biomarker, and/or a mediator, of metabolic and inflammatory diseases in humans as well as in rodents.
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PUBLICATION TYPE: Research Support, N.I.H., Extr
Journal: Hormone and metabolic research. Hormon- und Stoffw
VOLUME: 39
Page Numbers: 710-6
Journal Abbreviation: Horm. Metab. Res.
ISSN: 0018-5043
DAY: 22
MONTH: Oct
YEAR: 2007
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AFFILIATION: Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, and The Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6149, USA. lazar@mail.med.upenn.edu
Country: Germany
AGENCY: United States NIDDK
GRANT: DK49780
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