 Receptors, Adiponectin
"Receptors, Adiponectin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Cell surface receptors for ADIPONECTIN, an antidiabetic hormone secreted by ADIPOCYTES. Adiponectin receptors are membrane proteins with multiple cytoplasmic and extracellular regions. They are about 43 kDa and encoded by at least two genes with different affinities for globular and full-length adiponectin.
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D054419
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.543.750.065.249
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Bagley HN, Wang Y, Campbell MS, Yu X, Lane RH, Joss-Moore LA. Maternal docosahexaenoic acid increases adiponectin and normalizes IUGR-induced changes in rat adipose deposition. J Obes. 2013; 2013:312153.
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