• A myokine is one of several hundred cytokines or other small proteins (~5–20 kDa) and proteoglycan peptides that are produced and released by skeletal...
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    that acts as both a pro-inflammatory cytokine and an anti-inflammatory myokine. In humans, it is encoded by the IL6 gene. In addition, osteoblasts secrete...
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    Jedrychowski MP, Korde A, Ye L, Lo JC, et al. (January 2012). "A PGC1-α-dependent myokine that drives brown-fat-like development of white fat and thermogenesis"...
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    IL-6 Cytokine and Myokine Macrophages, osteoblasts, adipocytes, and smooth muscle cells (cytokine) Skeletal muscle cells (myokine) Pro-inflammatory cytokine...
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  • leading them to introduce the term "myokine". He furthered the understanding of interleukin 6 (IL-6) as a myokine, demonstrating through human infusion...
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    redundancy Cytokine release syndrome Cytokine secretion assay ELISA assays Myokine Signal transduction Thymic stromal lymphopoietin Virokine Saito explains...
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    maintains NAD+ in the hypothalamus (the control center) in conjunction with myokines from skeletal muscle cells. In 2018, Napa Therapeutics was formed to develop...
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    endocrine organ by secreting myokines – a wide range of cytokines and other peptides that act as signalling molecules. Myokines in turn are believed to mediate...
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    factor Intracrine List of investigational sex-hormonal agents Metabolomics Myokine Neohormone Neuroendocrinology Paracrine signaling Plant hormones, a.k.a...
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    Myostatin (category Myokines)
    is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MSTN gene. Myostatin is a myokine that is produced and released by myocytes and acts on muscle cells to inhibit...
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