Adipokines

"Adipokines" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Polypeptides produced by the ADIPOCYTES. They include LEPTIN; ADIPONECTIN; RESISTIN; and many cytokines of the immune system, such as TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN-6; and COMPLEMENT FACTOR D (also known as ADIPSIN). They have potent autocrine, paracrine, and endocrine functions.

Descriptor ID	D054392
MeSH Number(s)	D06.472.699.042 D12.644.276.024 D12.644.548.011 D12.776.467.024 D23.529.024
Concept/Terms	Adipokines Adipokines Adipocytokines Adipokine

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Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists [D06]
Hormones [D06.472]
Peptide Hormones [D06.472.699]
Adipokines [D06.472.699.042]
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins [D12]
Peptides [D12.644]
Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins [D12.644.276]
Adipokines [D12.644.276.024]
Peptide Hormones [D12.644.548]
Adipokines [D12.644.548.011]
Proteins [D12.776]
Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins [D12.776.467]
Adipokines [D12.776.467.024]
Biological Factors [D23]
Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins [D23.529]
Adipokines [D23.529.024]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2009	0	3	3
2010	0	2	2
2011	1	3	4
2012	0	2	2
2013	1	0	1
2014	0	1	1
2017	1	1	2
2018	1	0	1
2020	1	0	1
2022	1	1	2
2024	1	0	1

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Baker JF, Reed G, Mikuls TR, Thiele GM, Pappas DA, Charles-Schoeman C, Guma M, Harrold LR, Curtis JR, Kremer JM. Metabolic Syndrome, Adipokines, and Response to Advanced Therapies in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2025 Mar; 77(3):263-271.

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Chen Q, Huang L, Pan D, Hu K, Li R, Friedline RH, Kim JK, Zhu LJ, Guertin DA, Wang YX. A brown fat-enriched adipokine Adissp controls adipose thermogenesis and glucose homeostasis. Nat Commun. 2022 Dec 10; 13(1):7633.

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Chow LS, Gerszten RE, Taylor JM, Pedersen BK, van Praag H, Trappe S, Febbraio MA, Galis ZS, Gao Y, Haus JM, Lanza IR, Lavie CJ, Lee CH, Lucia A, Moro C, Pandey A, Robbins JM, Stanford KI, Thackray AE, Villeda S, Watt MJ, Xia A, Zierath JR, Goodpaster BH, Snyder MP. Exerkines in health, resilience and disease. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2022 05; 18(5):273-289.

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Aydemir N, Pike MM, Alsouqi A, Headley SAE, Tuttle K, Evans EE, Milch CM, Moody KA, Germain M, Lipworth L, Himmelfarb J, Ikizler TA, Robinson-Cohen C. Effects of diet and exercise on adipocytokine levels in patients with moderate to severe chronic kidney disease. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2020 07 24; 30(8):1375-1381.

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von Jeinsen B, Short MI, Xanthakis V, Carneiro H, Cheng S, Mitchell GF, Vasan RS. Association of Circulating Adipokines With Echocardiographic Measures of Cardiac Structure and Function in a Community-Based Cohort. J Am Heart Assoc. 2018 06 21; 7(13).

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Zachariah JP, Quiroz R, Nelson KP, Teng Z, Keaney JF, Sullivan LM, Vasan RS. Prospective Relation of Circulating Adipokines to Incident Metabolic Syndrome: The Framingham Heart Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2017 Jul 16; 6(7).

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Zachariah JP, Quiroz R, Enserro D, Andersson C, Keaney JF, Sullivan LM, Vasan RS. Association of Parental Obesity and Diabetes Mellitus With Circulating Adipokines in Nonobese Nondiabetic Offspring. J Am Heart Assoc. 2017 Jul 16; 6(7).

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Saddic LA, Nicoloro SM, Gupta OT, Czech MP, Gorham J, Shernan SK, Seidman CE, Seidman JG, Aranki SF, Body SC, Fitzgibbons TP, Muehlschlegel JD. Joint analysis of left ventricular expression and circulating plasma levels of Omentin after myocardial ischemia. Cardiovasc Diabetol. 2017 07 07; 16(1):87.

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Chen Z, Wang GX, Ma SL, Jung DY, Ha H, Altamimi T, Zhao XY, Guo L, Zhang P, Hu CR, Cheng JX, Lopaschuk GD, Kim JK, Lin JD. Nrg4 promotes fuel oxidation and a healthy adipokine profile to ameliorate diet-induced metabolic disorders. Mol Metab. 2017 08; 6(8):863-872.

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Lee JJ, Pedley A, Hoffmann U, Massaro JM, Keaney JF, Vasan RS, Fox CS. Cross-Sectional Associations of Computed Tomography (CT)-Derived Adipose Tissue Density and Adipokines: The Framingham Heart Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2016 Feb 29; 5(3):e002545.

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