Association of Cysteine with Obesity, Inflammatory Cytokines and Insulin Resistance in Hispanic Children and Adolescents

Plasma total cysteine (tCys) independently relates to fat mass in adults. Dietary cyst(e)ine promotes adiposity and decreases glucose tolerance in some rodent models, but alleviates insulin resistance in others. To investigate whether the association of tCys with body fat extends to children at part...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 7; no. 9; p. e44166
Main Authors:	Elshorbagy, Amany K, Valdivia-Garcia, Maria, Refsum, Helga, Butte, Nancy, Catapano, Alberico
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 11.09.2012 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Adipokines - blood Adipose tissue Adipose Tissue - pathology adiposity Adolescent Adolescents Adults age Amino acids Analysis Animal models Anthropometry biochemical pathways Biology Biomarkers - blood blood serum Body Composition Body fat Body mass body mass index Body weight C-reactive protein Chemistry chemokine CCL2 Child Child health Childhood obesity Children correlation Cysteine Cysteine - blood Cytokines Cytokines - blood Diet dose response Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry Energy measurement Esterification fasting Fatty acids Female free fatty acids gender Glucose Glucose tolerance Health risks Hispanic Americans Hispanics Homocysteine Humans Inflammation Inflammation Mediators - blood Insulin Insulin Resistance Interleukin 6 Interleukins Leptin Male Medicine Metabolites Methionine Monocyte chemoattractant protein Monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 Nutrition research Obesity Obesity - blood Obesity - pathology Odds Ratio Overweight Overweight - blood Overweight - pathology Physiological aspects regression analysis Risk Rodents Subgroups Sulfur Teenagers Thiols Tumor necrosis factor tumor necrosis factor-alpha Young Adult United Kingdom > UK
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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