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Table of Contents

Lifestyle Factors Increasing Adiponectin Synthesis and Secretion
Justine M. Tishinsky, David J. Dyck, Lindsay E. Robinson

Molecular Tools to Characterize Adiponectin Activity
Cathleen Juhl and Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

Nutritional and Hormonal Modulation of Adiponectin and Its Receptors AdipoR1 and AdipoR2
Cristiane de Oliveira, Ana Barbosa Marcondes de Mattos, Carolina Biz Rodrigues Silva, João Felipe Mota, Juliane Costa Silva Zemdegs

Regulation and Function of Adiponectin Receptors in Skeletal Muscle
Yaniv Lustig, Rina Hemi and Hannah Kanety

Screening for Adiponectin Secretion Regulators
Kyosuke Hino and Hidetaka Nagata

Adiponectin and PPAR?: Cooperative and Interdependent Actions of Two Key Regulators of Metabolism
Olga Astapova and Todd Leff

Glucocorticoid Effects on Adiponectin Expression
Siddharth Sukumaran, Debra C. DuBois, William J. Jusko, and Richard R. Almon

Adiponectin and Reproduction
Esther Dos Santos, René Pecquery, Philippe De Mazancourt and Marie-Noëlle Dieudonne

Adiponectin and Its Receptors in Preimplantation Embryo Development
Štefan Cikoš

Adiponectin and the Control of Female Reproductive Functions
Marie-France Palin, Vilceu Bordignon V and Bruce D. Murphy

Adiponectin in the Heart and Vascular System
Min Ding, Eva M. Rzucidlo, Jennifer C. Davey, Yi Xie, Renjing Liu, Yu Jin, Lindsey Stavola, and Kathleen A. Martin

Adiponectin Interactions In Bone and Cartilage Biology And Disease
Massimiliano Ruscica, Liliana Steffani, and Paolo Magni

Lipid-Lowering Drugs and Circulating Adiponectin
Desiree Wanders, Eric P. Plaisance, Robert L. Judd

Adiponectin And Interleukin-6 In Inflammation-Associated Disease
Li Li, and Li-Ling Wu

New Insights into Anti-Carcinogenic Properties of Adiponectin: a Potential Therapeutic Approach in Breast Cancer?
Laetitia Delort, Thierry Jardé, Virginie Dubois, Marie-Paule Vasson, Florence Caldefie-Chézet

Adiponectin: A Novel Link between Adipocytes and COPD

Yoshito Takeda, Kaori Nakanishi, Isao Tachibana, Atsushi Kumanogoh

About the Author

Trained in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dr. Litwack worked on enzymology and the effects of hormones on enzyme systems. Then he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at the Biochemical Institute of the Sorbonne in Paris. Dr. Litwack's first position was as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Rutgers University in 1954. Six years later, he joined the University of Pennsylvania as associate professor and four years later went to the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, as full professor, eventually becoming Deputy Director of the Institute. In 1991, he accepted the Chair of Pharmacology at Thomas Jefferson University where he is also Deputy Director of the Jefferson Cancer Institute and Associate Director for Basic Science in the Jefferson Cancer Center. Dr. Litwack's work has been in the area of mechanisms of steroid receptor action involving especially the glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors, immunophi.