Adipose tissue and adipokines in health and disease /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Totowa, N.J. :
Humana Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | Nutrition and health (Totowa, N.J.)
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Table of Contents:
- The adipose organ
- Metabolism of white adipose tissue
- Leptin
- Adiponectin
- Vasoactive factors and inflammatory mediators produced in adipose tissue
- Regulation of the immune response by leptin
- Leptin in autoimmune disease
- Leptin and gastrointestinal inflammation
- Adiponectin and inflammation
- Macrophages, adipocytes, and obesity.
- Interactions of adipose and lymphoid tissues
- Adipose tissue and mast cells : adipokines as Yin-Yang modulators of inflammation
- Bone marrow adipose tissue
- Environmental aspects of obesity
- The genetics of obesity : five fundamental problems with the famine hypothesis
- Developmental perspectives on the origins of obesity
- The epidemiology of obesity
- Inherited and acquired lipodystrophies : disorders of adipose tissue, development, differentiation, and death
- Mechanisms of cachexia
- Adipose tissue and insulin resistance
- Adipokines in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Adiposity and cancer
- Obesity and cardiovascular disease
- Obesity and asthma
- Adiposity and kidney disease
- Obesity and joint disease
- Effect of weight loss on disease