Recent studies point to the adipose tissue as a highly active endocrine organ secreting a range of hormones. There is great interest in clarifying the role of adipose tissue-derived peptides ...

Adiponectin is an adipocyte-derived collagen-like protein, highly specific to adipose tissue and may represent an important link between obesity and atherosclerosis. The present study was designed to ...

Diabetes has become a leading cause of morbidity and mortality and the prevention and management of diabetes is now a major global health concern. While recent studies link obesity with diabetes, ...

Adiponectin, a hormone secreted by adipose tissue, plays a doubly important role in preserving pancreatic function: in lean people, it protects beta cells, which make insulin, and in obese people, it ...

While obesity is a well-known cause of cardiovascular disease, research from Sweden has now revealed that one of the body's obesity-related hormones -- adiponectin -- is also linked to osteoporosis ...

Researchers investigated the role between adiponectin and leptin in obesity-related carcinogenesis. Their findings suggest that the protein hormone adiponectin has potential for inhibiting the ...

The fat-generated hormone adiponectin plays an important role in the energetic capacity of skeletal muscle, according to a new study in the July, 2006, Cell Metabolism, published by Cell Press.

Fig 1. Possible pathways by which adiponectin exerts either inhibitory (blue) or stimulatory (gold) modulation that ultimately results in cell- and tissue-level effects that potentially reduce risk ...

Researchers from Senelix Co. Ltd. described the preclinical characterization of the novel adiponectin receptor protein 1/2 (ADIPOR1/2) agonist SL-100, which is being developed for the treatment of dry ...