Resistin appears to be not the main link between obesity and insulin resistance in children and adolescents but because of its association with Tanner stage, it may be related to the maturation of children during pubertal development. Additionally, we have demonstrated the presence of different molecular isoforms of resistin in human blood, and this may raise problems in comparing data from diverse assay systems.

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Although a high proportion of treated eyes eventually lost a great deal of vision, and although many treated eyes ultimately underwent secondary enucleation, a substantial number of patients treated by plaque radiotherapy in this series survived for well over 10 years and retained the tumor-containing eye with a visual decrease of varying severity.