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Main description:
This book presents a comprehensive survey of adipose tissue, its physiological functions, and its role in disease. The volume spans the entire range of adipose tissue studies, from basic anatomical and physiological research to epidemiology and clinical studies. Groundbreaking recent studies are incorporated into traditional models of adipose tissue properties. A description of the role of macrophages in obesity and metabolism in included.
Contents:
Adipose tissue and adipokines in health and disease
Editors: Giamila Fantuzzi and Theodore Mazzone
Series Editor Page
Adrianne Bendich
Foreword
Andrew P. Goldberg and Susan K. Fried
Introduction
Giamila Fantuzzi and Theodore Mazzone
Adipose tissue: structure and function
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
Adipokines as regulators of immunity and inflammation
Vasoactive factors and inflammatory mediators produced in adipose tissue
Gema Fruhbeck
Regulation of the immune response by leptin
Victor Sanchez-Margalet, Patricia Fernandez-Riejos, Carmen Gonzalez-Yanes, Souad Najib, Consuelo Martin-Romero and Jose Santos-Alvarez
Leptin in autoimmune disease
Giuseppe Matarese
Leptin and gastrointestinal inflammation
Arvind Batra and Britta Siegmund
Adiponectin and inflammation
Yuji Matsuzawa
Interactions between adipocytes and immune cells
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, Anton B. Tonchev, Nese Tuncel, Pepa Atannasova and Luigi Aloe
Bone marrow adipose tissue
Patrick Laharrague and Louis Castella
The obesity epidemics
Environmental aspects of obesity
Lisa Diewald, Myles S. Faith M and Meredith 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
Adipose tissue and disease
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
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Publication date: October, 2011
Pages: 422
Weight: 802g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Biochemistry, Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Nutrition, Physiology
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