The hormone resistin links obesity to diabetes

@article{Steppan2001TheHR,
  title={The hormone resistin links obesity to diabetes},
  author={Claire M. Steppan and Shannon T. Bailey and Savitha Bhat and Elizabeth J. Brown and Ronadip R. Banerjee and Christopher M Wright and Hiralben R Patel and Rexford S. Ahima and Mitchell A. Lazar},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2001},
  volume={409},
  pages={307-312}
}
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease that leads to complications including heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, blindness and nerve damage. Type 2 diabetes, characterized by target-tissue resistance to insulin, is epidemic in industrialized societies and is strongly associated with obesity; however, the mechanism by which increased adiposity causes insulin resistance is unclear. Here we show that adipocytes secrete a unique signalling molecule, which we have named resistin (for resistance… 
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