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Visfatin Induces Sickness Responses in the Brain

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Visfatin, also known as nicotiamide phosphoribosyltransferase or pre-B cell colony enhancing factor, is a pro-inflammatory cytokine whose serum level is increased in sepsis and cancer as well as in obesity. Here we report a pro-inflammatory role of visfatin in the brain, to med...

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Autores principales: Park, Byong Seo, Jin, Sung Ho, Park, Joong Jean, Park, Jeong Woo, Namgoong, Il Seong, Kim, Young Il, Lee, Byung Ju, Kim, Jae Geun
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3024312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21283791
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015981