Increased circulating obestatin in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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Increased circulating obestatin in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
BACKGROUND Some peptides, which regulate the metabolic balance, are thought to play important roles in nutritional disorders and systemic inflammation in COPD. Treatment of rats with obestatin decreased body-weight gain. Obestatin was also found to be correlated with inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis. The aims of this study were to investigate the level of circulating obestatin in COPD and t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2049-6958
DOI: 10.1186/2049-6958-9-5