Adipokines in inflammation and metabolic disease

Nature Reviews Immunology - Tập 11 Số 2 - Trang 85-97 - 2011
Noriyuki Ouchi1, Jennifer Parker2, Jesse J. Lugus2, Kenneth Walsh2
1Department of Molecular Cardiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8550 Japan.
2Molecular Cardiology, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA

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