Table 1.

Summary of the principle roles of asprosin in different metabolic tissues and organs

Tissue	Principle Function of Asprosin	References
Adipose Tissue	Main source of asprosin production and secretion	Romere et al. 2016
Liver	Primary target tissue; promotes hepatic glucose production	Romere et al. 2016 Ko et al. 2019
	Receptor binding (OLFR734)	Li et al. 2019
Pancreas	Reduces insulin secretion; amplifies inflammatory response and apoptosis of pancreatic cells	Lee et al. 2019
Brain	Increases appetite and food intake	Duerrschmid et al. 2017
Skeletal Muscle	Augments endoplasmic reticulum stress and inflammation	Jung et al. 2019