Species within the genus, Campylobacter, have emerged over the last three decades as
significant clinical pathogens, particularly of human public health concern, where the majority of …

Obesity, especially of the abdominal type, is a health problem that constitutes metabolic
syndrome and increases the incidence of various diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, …

Antibiotic resistance, particularly with the fluoroquinolones and macrolide antibiotics, has now
emerged globally with thermophilic campylobacters, including Campylobacter jejuni and C…

Fat tissue produces a variety of secreted proteins (adipocytokines) with important roles in
metabolism. We isolated a newly identified adipocytokine, visfatin, that is highly enriched in the …

Obesity is a principal causative factor in the development of metabolic syndrome. Here we
report that increased oxidative stress in accumulated fat is an important pathogenic …

… Their BMI was 31.1±2.4 kg/m 2 (range, 24.5 to 39.3 kg/m 2 ) in nondiabetic subjects (age,
54±5 years) and 33.0±3.5 kg/m 2 (range, 22.4 to 44.8 kg/m 2 ) in diabetic subjects (age, 54±8 …

Comparative analysis of multiple genomes in a phylogenetic framework dramatically improves
the precision and sensitivity of evolutionary inference, producing more robust results than …

Here we investigated the biological functions of adiponectin/ACRP30, a fat-derived hormone,
by disrupting the gene that encodes it in mice. Adiponectin/ACRP30-knockout (KO) mice …

… A total of 29 subjects (16 men, 13 women, average age 50 ± 3 years, BMI 29.1 ± 0.8 kg/m 2
) with glucose intolerance were eligible for the study and gave written informed consent. The …

… = 0.54, P 0.0001) estimates of whole-body insulin sensitivity yielded correlation coefficients
(compare d with the insulin clamp) that were somewhat lower than the estimate derived fro m …