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. 2023 Mar 31:1–21. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s11154-023-09800-w

Table 2.

Studies on the upregulation of CXC-chemokines in obesity and obesity-related disorders

Family Disease/indicators of obesity Types of study Abbreviations/ scientific name Conclusion/effects References
ELR+ Ovarian cancer, Prostate cancer and NAFLD In vitro, In vivo Gro-α/CXCL1

Angiogenesis in ovarian cancer cells. ↑

promotes prostate cancer progression. ↑

Promote systemic inflammation. ↑

[36, 15, 37, 38]
Obese oocytes, Metabolic syndrome, Adipose tissue inflammation In vivo GROβ/CXCL2 Promote inflammation. ↑ [3941]
Obesity, Cervical cancer In vitro, In vivo GROγ/ CXCL3

Malignancy-associated capacities such as migration. ↑

Improvement obesity-related comorbidities. ↑

Promote systematic inflammation and insulin resistance. ↑

[4244]
Lymphatic vasculature dysfunction In vivo PF4/CXCL4 PF4 is a promising biomarker with lymphatic defects independent of the presence or absence of obesity. ↑ [45]
Prostate Lung Colorectal and Ovarian cancer and Obesity In vivo GCP-2 /CXCL6 Worked out as an inflammatory biomarker. ↑ [46, 47]
NAFLD, Obese obstructive sleep apnea and Metabolic inflammation at the maternal–fetal interface In vitro, In vivo IL -8 /CXCL8 Promote complex inflammation. ↑ [48505154]
NASH, Obesity and Psoriasis with obesity In vivo MIG/CXCL9 Promote Inflammation. ↑ [5557]
ELR

Obesity, Ovarian Inflammation, Diabetes, Diliary inflammation

and NAFLD

In vitro, In vivo

IP-10/CXCL10 and I-TAC/

CXCL11

Work as an Inhibitor of adipose tissue angiogenesis and promote inflammation. ↑ [5862]
Breast cancer and Obesity In vitro, In vivo SDF-1α/CXCL12

Regulating metastasis of breast cancer. ↑

Promote inflammation. ↑

[63, 64]
Obesity models and Diabetes In vitro, In vivo BRAK/CXCL14

CXCL14 promotes the recruitment of M2-type macrophages. ↑

Promote inflammation. ↑

Regulator of glucose metabolism. ↑

Associated with inflammation or lipid metabolism. ↑

[65, 66, 19, 6769]
Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome in Psoriasis In vivo SR-PSOX/CXCL16

Accumulation and alterations in lipid metabolism. ↑

Associated with breast adipocyte hypertrophy in African American women. ↑

Innate lymphoid cells activation and tissue distribution in obese psoriatic patients. ↑

[7072]

The ↑ symbol represented up-regulation of CXC-chemokines during obesity and obesity related disorders types 2 diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases