Is obesity an inflammatory disease?

Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 329-335

  Ramos, Eduardo J B ^b   Xu, Yuan ^b   Romanova, Irina ^b   Middleton, Frank ^b   Chen, Chung ^b   Quinn, Robert ^b   Inui, Akio ^b   Das, Undurti ^b   Meguid, Michael M ^a  

^a University Hospital   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DIET; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MALE; MESENTERY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RAT; RAT STRAIN; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

EID: 0042328038     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.2003.267     Document Type: Article

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