The role of exercise in the interplay between myokines, hepatokines, osteokines, adipokines, and modulation of inflammation for energy substrate redistribution and …

AM Gonzalez-Gil, L Elizondo-Montemayor - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
Exercise is an effective strategy for preventing and treating obesity and its related
cardiometabolic disorders, resulting in significant loss of body fat mass, white adipose tissue …

[HTML][HTML] Hepatokines and metabolism: Deciphering communication from the liver

SO Jensen-Cody, MJ Potthoff - Molecular metabolism, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The liver is a key regulator of systemic energy homeostasis and can sense and
respond to nutrient excess and deficiency through crosstalk with multiple tissues. Regulation …

Mechanisms by which skeletal muscle myokines ameliorate insulin resistance

R Balakrishnan, DC Thurmond - International journal of molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The skeletal muscle is the largest organ in the body and secretes circulating factors,
including myokines, which are involved in various cellular signaling processes. Skeletal …

Elevated circulating follistatin associates with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes

C Wu, Y Borné, R Gao, M López Rodriguez… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The hepatokine follistatin is elevated in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and promotes
hyperglycemia in mice. Here we explore the relationship of plasma follistatin levels with …

Factors mediating exercise‐induced organ crosstalk

R Sabaratnam, JFP Wojtaszewski… - Acta …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Exercise activates a plethora of metabolic and signalling pathways in skeletal muscle and
other organs causing numerous systemic beneficial metabolic effects. Thus, regular exercise …

Exercise-induced secretion of FGF21 and follistatin are blocked by pancreatic clamp and impaired in type 2 diabetes

JS Hansen, BK Pedersen, G Xu… - The Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Context: Hepatokines have emerged as liver-derived hormone-like factors. Plasma fibroblast
growth factor (FGF)-21 and follistatin increase with a high glucagon to insulin ratio and …

Circulating follistatin is liver-derived and regulated by the glucagon-to-insulin ratio

JS Hansen, S Rutti, C Arous… - The Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Context: Follistatin is a plasma protein recently reported to increase under conditions with
negative energy balance, such as exercise and fasting in humans. Currently, the perception …

Inactivating hepatic follistatin alleviates hyperglycemia

R Tao, C Wang, O Stöhr, W Qiu, Y Hu, J Miao… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Unsuppressed hepatic glucose production (HGP) contributes substantially to glucose
intolerance and diabetes, which can be modeled by the genetic inactivation of hepatic …

Relationship of muscle function to circulating myostatin, follistatin and GDF11 in older women and men

E Fife, J Kostka, Ł Kroc, A Guligowska, M Pigłowska… - BMC geriatrics, 2018 - Springer
Background Myostatin, its inhibitor follistatin, and growth/differentiation factor 11 (GDF11)
have been proposed as factors that could potentially modify biological aging. The study …

The influence of adiposity and acute exercise on circulating hepatokines in normal-weight and overweight/obese men

JA Sargeant, GP Aithal, T Takamura… - Applied Physiology …, 2018 - cdnsciencepub.com
Hepatokines are liver-secreted proteins with potential to influence glucose regulation and
other metabolic parameters. This study investigated differences in adiposity status on 5 …