脂肪因子
内分泌系统
脂肪组织
胰岛素抵抗
旁分泌信号
生物
代谢综合征
脂质代谢
内分泌学
肥胖
生物信息学
内科学
医学
激素
受体
作者
Sara Parrettini,Massimiliano Cavallo,Francesco Gaggia,Riccardo Calafiore,Giovanni Luca
出处
期刊:Protein and Peptide Letters
[Bentham Science]
日期:2020-12-02
卷期号:27 (12): 1204-1230
被引量:16
标识
DOI:10.2174/0929866527666200505214555
摘要
Obesity represents one of the most important health problems worldwide with increasing morbidity and mortality. Widespread prevalence of this disease justifies its actual definition of a "global epidemic". Adipose tissue is nowadays considered a complex organ with lots of endocrine and metabolic functions. In addition to fulfilling its task for energy storage and thermal regulation, by virtue of its constituent white and brown cells, adipose tissue represents, considering its size, the biggest endocrine gland in the body. Both adipocytes and surrounding resident cells (macrophages, endothelial cells and others) produce a huge number of molecules, or adipokines, with endocrine or paracrine functions, that regulate various aspects of metabolism whose clinical relevance is emerging. By balancing pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory effects, the adipokines control insulin sensitivity and related glucose metabolism changes, lipid accumulation in the liver and other organs, and finally gonadal function. Collectively, literature data remains cloudy because of still conflicting results of pre-clinical and clinical studies. The aim of this review was to summarize scientific evidence about adipokines' effects on human metabolism, by focusing on their role on either Metabolic Syndrome and NAFLD, or insulin-resistance in pregnancy, or finally, reproductive function disorders.
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