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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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Irisin: A clue for metabolic disorders
Gutch Manish1, Kumar Sukriti1, Abhinav Gupta2, Gupta Kumar Keshav2, Razi Mohd Syed2
1 Department of Medicine, KGMU, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Endocrinology, LLRM Medical College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Gutch Manish
D-15, LLRM Medical College, Meerut - 250 004, Uttar Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/2347-9906.184171
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Skeletal muscles express and elaborate a number of cytokines and other substances for modulating various metabolic processes which function locally and also target distant organs are known as myokines. Irisin is one of the most recently discovered myokines and is found to modulate effect of exercise on adipocytes through browning of white adipose tissue. Besides this, irisin is considered to be one of the future targets for therapies for metabolic disorders. |
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