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Visfatin: a protein secreted by visceral fat that mimics the effects of insulin.

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Published in Science on December 16, 2004

Authors

Atsunori Fukuhara1, Morihiro Matsuda, Masako Nishizawa, Katsumori Segawa, Masaki Tanaka, Kae Kishimoto, Yasushi Matsuki, Mirei Murakami, Tomoko Ichisaka, Hiroko Murakami, Eijiro Watanabe, Toshiyuki Takagi, Megumi Akiyoshi, Tsuguteru Ohtsubo, Shinji Kihara, Shizuya Yamashita, Makoto Makishima, Tohru Funahashi, Shinya Yamanaka, Ryuji Hiramatsu, Yuji Matsuzawa, Iichiro Shimomura

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine and Pathophysiology, Graduate School of Medicine, and Department of Organismal Biosystems, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.

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