Visfatin reportedly induces the expression of proinflammatory cytokines. Severe grades intervertebral disc disease (IVDD) exhibit higher visfatin than mild ones. However, direc...

Background: Visfatin is protein with insulin-like function that is expressed in high levels in visceral fat tissue and its circulating levels is associated with obesity and diabetes. Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of 10 weeks of rhythmic aerobic exercise and green tea supplementation on visfatin levels and insulin resistance in obese type II diabetic women. Met...

To explore the relationship between visfatin, ASP and the incidence of childhood obesity and the significance of them in diagnoses and therapy of children obesity. Eighty-six children (57 boys and 29 girls) including 40 obese children,22 overweight children and 24 normal control children were recruited with ages ranged 7-15 years. Serum visfatin and ASP levels were determined by ELISA. (1) As c...

OBJECTIVES To study the associations of adipokines with recovery from upper extremity soft tissue disorders (UESTDs) and to explore whether overweight or obesity modify these associations. METHODS In this follow-up study, patients seeking medical advice due to incipient upper extremity symptoms with symptom duration <1 month were included (n = 163). The outcome of the study was full or substa...

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a generic designation for group of related syndromes resulting from myocardial ischemia – an imbalance between cardiac blood supply (perfusion) and oxygen demand. Visfatin (VF) recently discovered adipokine with different functions, mainly found in visceral adipose tissue mimics insulin lowering plasma glucose levels and, emerges as player the development progres...

We hypothesized that regulation of visfatin in hypothyroidism might be altered by coexisting chronic autoimmune thyroiditis. This is a prospective case-control study of 118 subjects. The autoimmune study group (AIT) consisted of 39 patients newly diagnosed with hypothyroidism in a course of chronic autoimmune thyroiditis. The nonautoimmune study group (TT) consisted of 40 patients thyroidectomi...

OBJECTIVE The role of first trimester maternal body mass index (BMI) and adipocytokines in cord blood c-peptide and birth weight in pregnancy was investigated. DESIGN Seventy non-diabetic pregnant Caucasian women were recruited. Anthropometry and measurements of fasting adipocytokines (visfatin, leptin, adiponectin), insulin and glucose were performed in each of the three trimesters. At birth...

objective (s):rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disorder, primarily targeting the synovium and articular cartilage that leads to joint damage. recent reports have suggested the role of adipocytokines in mediating joint damage; however it still is a matter of debate. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between serum values of adiopocytokines (lept...

The aim of the study was to assess the expression and subcellular localization of visfatin in HCT-116 colorectal carcinoma cells after cytokinesis failure using Cytochalasin B (CytB) and the mechanism of apoptosis of cells after CytB. We observed translocation of visfatin's antigen in cytB treated colorectal carcinoma HCT-116 cells from cytosol to nucleus. Statistical and morphometric analysis ...