Adipose tissue and adipokines in health and disease /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Fantuzzi, Giamila, Mazzone, Theodore
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2007]
Series:Nutrition and health (Totowa, N.J.)
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Table of Contents:
  • The adipose organ / Saverio Cinti
  • Metabolism of white adipose tissue / Michel Beylot
  • Leptin / Malaka B. Jackson and Rexford S. Ahima
  • Adiponectin / Aimin Xu, Yu Wang, and Karen S.L. Lam
  • Vasoactive factors and inflammatory mediators produced in adipose tissue / Gema Frohbeck
  • Regulation of the immune response by leptin / Victor Sanchez-Margalet ... [et al.]
  • Leptin in autoimmune disease / Giuseppe Matarese
  • Leptin and gastrointestinal inflammation / Arvind Batra and Britta Siegmund
  • Adiponectin and inflammation / Yuji Matsuzawa
  • Macrophages, adipocytes, and obesity / Anthony W. Ferrante, Jr.
  • Interactions of adipose and lymphoid tissues / Caroline M. Pond
  • Adipose tissue and mast cells: adipokines as Yin-Yang modulators of inflammation / George N. Chaldakov ... [et al.]
  • Bone marrow adipose tissue / Patrick Laharrague and Louis Castella
  • Environmental aspects of obesity / Lisa Diewald, Myles S. Faith, and Meredith S. Dolan
  • The genetics of obesity: five fundamental problems with the famine hypothesis / John R. Speakman
  • Developmental perspectives on the origins of obesity / Cristopher W. Kuzawa, Peter D. Gluckman, and Mark A. Hanson
  • The epidemiology of obesity / Carol A. Braunschweig
  • Inherited and acquired lipodystrophies: disorders of adipose tissue, development, differentiation, and death / Vinaja Simha and Anil Agarwal
  • Mechanisms of cachexia / Robert H. Mak and Wai W. Cheung
  • Adipose tissue and insulin resistance / Stephen E. Borst
  • Adipokines in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease / Ancha Baranova and Zobair M. Younossi
  • Adiposity and cancer / Eugenia E. Calle
  • Obesity and cardiovascular disease / Alison M. Morris, Paul Poirier, and Robert H. Eckel
  • Obesity and asthma / Elisabeth Luder
  • Adiposity and kidney disease / Srinivasan Beddhu and Bonnie Ching-Ha Kwan
  • Obesity and joint disease / Andrew J. Teichtahl, Anita E. Wluka, and Flavia M. Cicuttini
  • Effect of weight loss on disease / Sergio Jose Bardaro, Dennis Hong, and Lee Swanstrom.