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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2025

The Role of Myokines in Liver Diseases.

Hiroki Nishikawa, Soo Ki Kim, Akira Asai

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Insulin Resistance and Inflammation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  8. Inflammation-Insulin Resistance Crosstalk and the Central Role of Myokines.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Hiroki NishikawaSecond Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 2-7, Daigakumachi, Takatsuki 569-8686, Osaka, Japan.
Soo Ki KimDepartment of Gastroenterology, Kobe Asahi Hospital, Kobe 653-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Akira AsaiSecond Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 2-7, Daigakumachi, Takatsuki 569-8686, Osaka, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-2915-7875

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Myokine is a general term for hormones, peptides, and other substances secreted by skeletal muscle. Myokine has attracted much attention in recent years as a key substance for understanding the mechanism of "exercise and health". Skeletal muscle accounts for about 40% of the total human weight and is now recognized as an endocrine organ that produces myokines, which have physiological activity. Representative myokines include IL-6, myostatin, irisin, brain-derived neurotropic factor, fibroblast growth factor-21, and decorin. On the other hand, sarcopenia, defined by quantitative and qualitative loss of skeletal muscle, is a condition that has received much attention in recent years because of its close correlation with prognosis. In patients with chronic liver disease (CLD), sarcopenia is a common complication. Mechanisms underlying sarcopenia in CLD patients have been reported to involve protein-energy malnutrition, which is characteristic of patients with cirrhosis, signaling involved in protein synthesis and degradation, myokines such as myostatin and decorin, the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, sex hormones such as testosterone, dysbiosis, and insulin resistance, etc., in addition to aging. Each of these pathological conditions is thought to be intricately related to each other, leading to sarcopenia. This review will summarize the relationship between CLD and myokines.

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Liver DiseasesSarcopeniaAnimalsFibronectinsHumansMuscle, SkeletalMyokinesMyostatinFibronectinsMyokinesMyostatinIL-6livermuscle–gut–liver axismyokinemyostatinsarcopenia

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PMID39940810
PMCPMC11817747

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