Visfatin: The missing link between intra-abdominal obesity and diabetes?

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 344-347

  Sethi, Jaswinder K ^a   Vidal Puig, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISFATIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW;

EID: 23144455313     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2005.06.010     Document Type: Short Survey

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