[We compared serum resistin levels in 17 PCOS women and 10 lean, healthy, age-matched non-PCOS women and also compared levels of insulin receptor (IR), phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3-kinase), glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) protein and resistin mRNA in adipocytes isolated from the omental adipose tissue of five of the PCOS patients and five age- and weight-matched, non-PCOS controls, to look for local defects in insulin action in PCOS.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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