The effects of obesity and polycystic ovary syndrome on serum lipocalin-2 levels: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Lipocalin-2 is a novel adipokine that appears to play a role in the development of insulin resistance. Serum lipocalin-2 levels are elevated in obese patients. Obesity and insulin resistance are cardinal characteristics of the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). However, there are limited...

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Autores principales: Panidis, Dimitrios, Tziomalos, Konstantinos, Koiou, Ekaterini, Kandaraki, Eleni A, Tsourdi, Elena, Delkos, Dimitrios, Kalaitzakis, Emmanuil, Katsikis, Ilias
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21143924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7827-8-151

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21143924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7827-8-151

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