CM de Souza Batista, RZ Yang, MJ Lee, NM … - Diabetes, 2007 - Am Diabetes Assoc Central obesity and the accumulation of visceral fat are risk factors for the
development of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Omentin is a protein
expressed and secreted from visceral but not subcutaneous adipose tissue ... Cited by 42 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
- ►physiology.org RZ Yang, MJ Lee, H Hu, J Pray, HB Wu, BC … - American Journal of Physiology- Endocrinology And …, 2006 - Am Physiological Soc Central (visceral) obesity is more closely associated with insulin resistance,
type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease than is peripheral [subcutaneous
(sc)] obesity, but the underlying mechanism for this pathophysiological ... Cited by 68 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►omentec.com A Schäffler, M Neumeier, H Herfarth, A Fürst, … - BBA-Gene Structure and Expression, 2005 - Elsevier In February 2004, the NCBI nucleotide databased was searched for new cDNA
sequences with potential adipocyte-specific expression. As a result, a new cDNA
named “omentin” (accession number: AY549722) was found and reported to ... Cited by 33 - Related articles - All 4 versions
CM de Souza Batista - Am Diabetes Assoc 1Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine;
2Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore;
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- ►diabetesjournals.org BK Tan, R Adya, S Farhatullah, KC … - Diabetes, 2008 - Am Diabetes Assoc OBJECTIVE—Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is associated with insulin
resistance and obesity. Recent studies have shown that plasma omentin-1 levels
decrease with obesity. Currently, no data exist on the relative expression ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
N Klöting, J Berndt, S Kralisch, P Kovacs, M … - Biochemical and Biophysical Research …, 2006 - Elsevier Recently, vaspin was identified as an adipokine with insulin-sensitizing
effects, which is predominantly secreted from visceral adipose tissue in a rat
model of type 2 diabetes. In this study, we examined whether vaspin mRNA ... Cited by 56 - Related articles - All 4 versions
- ►endojournals.org K Bozaoglu, K Bolton, J McMillan, P Zimmet, J … - Endocrinology, 2007 - Endocrine Soc Soluble protein hormones are key regulators of a number of metabolic processes,
including food intake and insulin sensitivity. We have used a signal sequence
trap to identify genes that encode secreted or membrane-bound proteins in ... Cited by 33 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►pnas.org K Hida, J Wada, J Eguchi, H Zhang, M Baba, A … - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005 - National Acad Sciences There is a rapid global rise in obesity, and the link between obesity and
diabetes remains somewhat obscure. We identified an adipocytokine, designated as
visceral adipose tissue-derived serpin (vaspin), which is a member of ... Cited by 98 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
S Wurm, M Neumeier, J Weigert, A Schäffler, … - Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2007 - cardiab.com Adipose tissue secreted proteins are collectively named adipocytokines and
include leptin, adiponectin, resistin, collagenous repeat-containing sequence of
26-kDa protein (CORS-26) and omentin. Several of these adipocytokines ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - Cached - All 8 versions
