Adipocytokines in insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: The two sides of the same coin

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1089-1090

  Polyzos, Stergios A ^a,b   Kountouras, Jannis ^a   Zavos, Christos ^a   Stergiopoulos, Christos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTOKINE; ADIPONECTIN; INSULIN; LEPTIN; NICOTINAMIDE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; RESISTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADIPOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; BODY FAT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL REGENERATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERLEPTINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LETTER; LIVER FIBROSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 77951620221     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.12.028     Document Type: Letter

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