Ischemic heart disease including myocardial infarction is the major cause of death in industrial countries 1,2. Obesity-linked disorders are thought to be involved in the severity and outcome of ...

Recent studies point to the adipose tissue as a highly active endocrine organ secreting a range of hormones. There is great interest in clarifying the role of adipose tissue-derived peptides ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adiponectin level is a powerful risk marker of incident prediabetes in healthy white and black adults with a ...

Diabetes has become a leading cause of morbidity and mortality and the prevention and management of diabetes is now a major global health concern. While recent studies link obesity with diabetes, ...

Sofia Antipolis, France - Increased levels of adiponectin, a cytokine released from adipose tissue, were associated with greater risk of MI and all-cause and CV mortality in a prospective study of ...

The Human Adiponectin ELISA kit (BioVendor, Brno, Czech Republic) was used to measure serum adiponectin levels in the study patients. a P 0.05 compared with the controls To verify if the reported ...

Researchers investigated the role between adiponectin and leptin in obesity-related carcinogenesis. Their findings suggest that the protein hormone adiponectin has potential for inhibiting the ...

Adiponectin, a hormone secreted by adipose tissue, plays a doubly important role in preserving pancreatic function: in lean people, it protects beta cells, which make insulin, and in obese people, it ...

Adiponectin, a hormone secreted by adipose tissue, plays a doubly important role in preserving pancreatic function: in lean people, it protects beta cells, which make insulin, and in obese people, it ...

Comprehensive molecular and genomic characterization of pancreatic tropism in metastatic renal cell carcinoma. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2019 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. This ...

Fig 1. Possible pathways by which adiponectin exerts either inhibitory (blue) or stimulatory (gold) modulation that ultimately results in cell- and tissue-level effects that potentially reduce risk ...

Stimulating the body’s immune defenses against a tumor can reduce or eliminate it. However, in cancer immunotherapy, when immune checkpoint inhibitors unleash the immune system, severe autoimmunity ...