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A promoter genotype and oxidative stress potentially link resistin to human insulin resistance.
Diabetes - 1 Jul 2003
Smith Steve R, Bai Fulu, Charbonneau Chantal, Janderová Lenka, Argyropoulos George
Abstract excerpt
Insulin resistance is a component of type 2 diabetes and often precedes pancreatic beta-cell failure. Contributing factors include obesity and a central pattern of fat accumulation with a strong genetic component. The adipocyte secreted hormone resistin has been proposed as a link between the adi...
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