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ArticleLipids in health and disease2020

Fetuin-a expression profile in mouse and human adipose tissue.

Abdelkrim Khadir, Sina Kavalakatt, Dhanya Madhu, Ali Tiss

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Article in Lipids in health and disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 45% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Abdelkrim KhadirGenetics and Bioinformatics department, Research Division, Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
Sina KavalakattBiochemistry and Molecular Biology department, Research Division, Dasman Diabetes Institute, P.O. Box1180, 15462, Dasman, Kuwait.
Dhanya MadhuBiochemistry and Molecular Biology department, Research Division, Dasman Diabetes Institute, P.O. Box1180, 15462, Dasman, Kuwait.
Ali TissBiochemistry and Molecular Biology department, Research Division, Dasman Diabetes Institute, P.O. Box1180, 15462, Dasman, Kuwait. ali.tiss@dasmaninstitute.org.
Dasman Diabetes Institute · KW

Funding

Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences RA2010-003
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fetuin-A (Fet-A) was one of the first hepatokines to be reportedly linked to metabolic diseases. Fet-A was also suggested to be an adipokine, but its expression in the adipose tissue remains debatable. Here we compared the expression of Fet-A between human and mice adipose tissue biopsies as well as among human subcutaneous tissue and visceral adipose tissue primary cells, and mouse 3 T3-L1 cells at various stages of differentiation. Fet-A was expressed in mice biopsies and cells but not in human biopsies and cells, except in visceral adipose tissue primary cells following differentiation. Although the marginal expression of Fet-A in human visceral adipose tissue, a major contribution of Fet-A expression in human adipose tissue to systemic Fet-A levels is discounted, but it could indicate specific local Fet-A action in the visceral adipose tissue.

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Adipose Tissuealpha-2-HS-GlycoproteinAnimalsCells, CulturedHumansIntra-Abdominal FatMiceSubcutaneous Tissuealpha-2-HS-GlycoproteinAdipose tissueFetuin-aHuman adipose primary cellsMouse adipose tissue

Identifiers

PMID32164711
PMCPMC7068996
OpenAlexW3011267026

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