Metabolism: Irisin, the metabolic syndrome and follistatin in humans

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-12

  Boström, Pontus A ^a   Fernández Real, José Manuel ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b HOSPITAL JOSEP TRUETA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; FOLLISTATIN; GLUCOSE; IRISIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ACTIVINS; FEMALE; FIBRONECTINS; FOLLISTATIN; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSTATIN; OBESITY, MORBID; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84890518354     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2013.230     Document Type: Short Survey

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