Effects of adrenal hormones on the expression of adiponectin and adiponectin receptors in adipose tissue, muscle and liver

Steroids

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1260-1267

  De Oliveira, Cristiane ^a   Iwanaga Carvalho, Carla ^b   Mota, João F ^a   Oyama, Lila M ^a   Ribeiro, Eliane B ^a   Oller Do Nascimento, Cláudia M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Centro Universitário da Cidade Do Rio de Janeiro   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adiponectin receptors; Adrenalectomy; Catecholamines; Glucocorticoids; Insulin resistance

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; ADIPONECTIN RECEPTOR 1; ADIPONECTIN RECEPTOR 2; ADRENALIN; DEXAMETHASONE; INSULIN; MESSENGER RNA; MIFEPRISTONE;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL LYSATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS FAT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER; MALE; MYOTUBE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROPERITONEAL FAT; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

3T3-L1 CELLS; ADIPONECTIN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; DEXAMETHASONE; EPINEPHRINE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MIFEPRISTONE; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ADIPONECTIN;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 80052727054     PISSN: 0039128X     EISSN: 18785867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.steroids.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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