Adiponectin is a metabolic link between obesity and bone mineral density
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 17:49
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Canada, have discovered that adiponectin, a protein secreted from adipocytes, is a metabolic link that can explain, in part, the known positive relationship between obesity and both bone mineral density and reduced susceptibility to fractures. This study appears in the December issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine.
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