SD Bailey, JC Loredo-Osti, P Lepage, J Faith … - Diabetes, 2006 - Am Diabetes Assoc The adipokine visfatin (PBEF1) exhibits insulin-mimetic effects and correlates
strongly with visceral adiposity. We sequenced visfatin gene exons and 1,480 bp
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YY Zhang, L Gottardo, R Thompson, C Powers, … - Obesity, 2006 - nature.com Visfatin (also known as pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor, or PBEF) is a
pro-inflammatory adipokine expressed predominantly in visceral fat. We
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A Körner, Y Böttcher, B Enigk, W Kiess, M … - Metabolism, 2007 - Elsevier Visfatin is a peptide predominantly expressed in visceral adipose tissue and was
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JK Sethi - Current Hypertension Reports, 2007 - Springer Introduction Hypertension and dyslipidemia have long been known to be associated
with diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD); more recently, insulin
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H Yokoyama, H Hirose, H Ohgo, I Saito - Alcoholism-Clinical and Experimental Research, 2004 - interscience.wiley.com It is also possible that your web browser is not configured or not able to
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R Leo, G Di Lorenzo, M Tesauro, C Cola, E … - Neuroscience letters, 2006 - Elsevier Adiponectin is the most abundant adipose-derived plasma protein. Recently
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