Bilirubin reduces visceral obesity and insulin resistance by suppression of inflammatory cytokines

• Ryoko Takei ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ryoko Takei, Tomoaki Inoue

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine and Bioregulatory Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka City Health Promotion Support Center, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Tomoaki Inoue ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ryoko Takei, Tomoaki Inoue

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Bioregulatory Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Noriyuki Sonoda,

  Roles Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Bioregulatory Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Motoyuki Kohjima,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Bioregulatory Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Misato Okamoto,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Bioregulatory Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Ryuichi Sakamoto,

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Bioregulatory Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Toyoshi Inoguchi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: toyoshi.inoguchi@gmail.com

  Affiliation Fukuoka City Health Promotion Support Center, Fukuoka, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7344-6199

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• Yoshihiro Ogawa

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Medicine and Bioregulatory Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Department of Molecular and Cellular Metabolism, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

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