Endocrine Abstracts

Aim of the study: To examine offspring of patients with simple obesity. To ascertain, if there are some disturbances in the carbohydrate or lipid metabolism or unknown type 2 diabetes in these subjects.Method and subjects: Examined were 132 families, 108 families with obesity, and 24 families without obesity, the control group. Fourteen additional were excluded because of ascertained at the time of examination unknown type 2 diabetes in the parents. In a...

Brown adipose tissue metabolism is of remarkable pathophysiological interest, because it could be a target for future therapies for obesity and metabolic syndrome. Irisin (Ir), recently identified novel adipomyokine is essential in a white-to-brown fatty tissue transdifferentiation, and mediates some of the positive influences on metabolic disorders through increase of energy expenditure. The exact regulation of Ir secretion and action is unknown but significant positive assoc...