Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Previous data shows that weight reduction decreases serum retinol binding protein-4 (RBP4) level. But it is not yet clear whether decreases in body weight resulted from exercise, will be accompanied by the changes of RBP4 protein expression in liver and adipose tissues in type 2 diabetes. Thus we designed this study to evaluate the ability of 7 weeks exercise to reverse the changes in body weight, insulin resistance (IR), serum RBP4 and its expression in liver an...