Visfatin is an adipose tissue-derived hormone shown to correlate with visceral fat mass in patients with obesity. Its possible role in patients with different types of eating disorders is unknown. We measured fasting serum levels of visfatin and leptin and surrogate measures of insulin sensitivity in 10 untreated patients with anorexia nervosa (AN), 10 untreated patients with bulimia nervosa (B...

Abstract Objectives Dental caries is a multifactorial infectious disease caused by the colonization and proliferation of bacteria in mouth. Recently, it has been reported that local antioxidant oxidant status may play an important role pathogenesis dental caries. Visfatin adipocytokine enhances leukocyte activation release proinflammatory cytokines. In this study, our aim was to investigate sal...

OBJECTIVE Adipokines are signaling and mediator proteins secreted from adipose tissue. A novel adipokine, visfatin, was reported as a protein which was mainly expressed in visceral adipose tissue. Controversial results have been shown regarding the changes of adipokines following weight reduction. So we investigated the effects of weight reduction on serum concentrations of adiponectin and visf...

BACKGROUND Systemic inflammation in psoriasis causes insulin resistance and cardiovascular diseases. Adipokines are adipose-tissue-derived factors that are involved in metabolic processes. It is thought that these adipokines are associated with the development of psoriasis. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the changes in adipokine levels, insulin resistance, hypertension, ...

BACKGROUND Lower testosterone levels have been reported in men suffering from diabetes mellitus. Men with insulin resistance states such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus have significantly lower testosterone levels than age-matched normal weight and non-diabetic controls. Adipose tissue secretes variety of adipokinesincluding adiponectin, resistin, visfatin, TNF-alpha. The study was desi...

PURPOSE: To investigate the effect of curcumin on visfatin and zinc-α2-glycoprotein (ZAG) expression levels in rats with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). METHODS: Fifty-six male rats were randomly divided into a control group (n=16) and model group (n=40) and were fed on a normal diet or a high-fat diet, respectively. Equal volumes of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) were intrag...

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the predictive value of resistin and visfatin in neonatal sepsis, and to compare these adipocytokines with C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin and interleukin 6 (IL-6). DONORS AND METHODS A total of 62 term or near term infants with sepsis proven by positivity of blood culture, and 43 healthy infants were included in this study. RESULTS There we...

OBJECTIVE Adipocytokines have been reported to contribute to the pathogenesis of colorectal cancer (CRC). The aim of this matched case-control study was to explore circulating novel adipocytokines, such as serum visfatin, omentin-1 and vaspin levels in patients with CRC. METHOD Serum visfatin, omentin-1, and vaspin levels were measured in 69 subjects (39 patients with colorectal cancer and 30...

Visfatin is a highly expressed protein with insulin-like functions located predominantly in visceral adipose tissue and has been linked to obesity and increased health risks. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of 12 weeks of combined exercise training on visfatin and metabolic syndrome factors in obese middle-aged women. Subjects were randomly assigned to either a training (n ...