Adipokines

"Adipokines" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Polypeptides produced by the ADIPOCYTES. They include LEPTIN; ADIPONECTIN; RESISTIN; and many cytokines of the immune system, such as TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN-6; and COMPLEMENT FACTOR D (also known as ADIPSIN). They have potent autocrine, paracrine, and endocrine functions.

Descriptor ID	D054392
MeSH Number(s)	D06.472.699.042 D12.644.276.024 D12.644.548.011 D12.776.467.024 D23.529.024
Concept/Terms	Adipokines Adipokines Adipocytokines Adipokine

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Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists [D06]
Hormones [D06.472]
Peptide Hormones [D06.472.699]
Adipokines [D06.472.699.042]
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins [D12]
Peptides [D12.644]
Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins [D12.644.276]
Adipokines [D12.644.276.024]
Peptide Hormones [D12.644.548]
Adipokines [D12.644.548.011]
Proteins [D12.776]
Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins [D12.776.467]
Adipokines [D12.776.467.024]
Biological Factors [D23]
Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins [D23.529]
Adipokines [D23.529.024]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2007	0	1	1
2008	0	2	2
2009	1	0	1
2010	1	0	1
2011	1	0	1
2012	1	0	1
2014	1	0	1
2019	0	1	1
2020	0	1	1

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Biscetti F, Nardella E, Cecchini AL, Flex A, Landolfi R. Biomarkers of vascular disease in diabetes: the adipose-immune system cross talk. Intern Emerg Med. 2020 04; 15(3):381-393.

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Chen X, Stein TP, Steer RA, Scholl TO. Individual free fatty acids have unique associations with inflammatory biomarkers, insulin resistance and insulin secretion in healthy and gestational diabetic pregnant women. BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2019; 7(1):e000632.

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Di Rosa M, Tibullo D, Vecchio M, Nunnari G, Saccone S, Di Raimondo F, Malaguarnera L. Determination of chitinases family during osteoclastogenesis. Bone. 2014 Apr; 61:55-63.

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Yi W, Sun Y, Yuan Y, Lau WB, Zheng Q, Wang X, Wang Y, Shang X, Gao E, Koch WJ, Ma XL. C1q/tumor necrosis factor-related protein-3, a newly identified adipokine, is a novel antiapoptotic, proangiogenic, and cardioprotective molecule in the ischemic mouse heart. Circulation. 2012 Jun 26; 125(25):3159-69.

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Martinez Cantarin MP, Keith SW, Deloach S, Huan Y, Falkner B. Relationship of adipokines with insulin sensitivity in African Americans. Am J Med Sci. 2011 Sep; 342(3):192-7.

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Fain JN, Sacks HS, Bahouth SW, Tichansky DS, Madan AK, Cheema PS. Human epicardial adipokine messenger RNAs: comparisons of their expression in substernal, subcutaneous, and omental fat. Metabolism. 2010 Sep; 59(9):1379-86.

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Fain JN, Tagele BM, Cheema P, Madan AK, Tichansky DS. Release of 12 adipokines by adipose tissue, nonfat cells, and fat cells from obese women. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2010 May; 18(5):890-6.

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Fain JN, Buehrer B, Bahouth SW, Tichansky DS, Madan AK. Comparison of messenger RNA distribution for 60 proteins in fat cells vs the nonfat cells of human omental adipose tissue. Metabolism. 2008 Jul; 57(7):1005-15.

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Guo C, Ricchiuti V, Lian BQ, Yao TM, Coutinho P, Romero JR, Li J, Williams GH, Adler GK. Mineralocorticoid receptor blockade reverses obesity-related changes in expression of adiponectin, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma, and proinflammatory adipokines. Circulation. 2008 Apr 29; 117(17):2253-61.

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Qin W, Zhu W, Schlatter L, Miick R, Loy TS, Atasoy U, Hewett JE, Sauter ER. Increased expression of the inflammatory protein YKL-40 in precancers of the breast. Int J Cancer. 2007 Oct 01; 121(7):1536-42.

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