Subcutaneous fat accumulation shows a beneficial correlation with serum cholesterol in postmenopausal Japanese women

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 232, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1064-1070

  Tanaka, Misuzu ^a   Koga, Ririko ^a   Tsuda, Hiroko ^a   Imai, Katsumi ^a   Abe, Shimako ^a   Masuda, Takashi ^a   Iwamoto, Masako ^a   Nakazono, Eri ^a   Kamohara, Tomoko ^a   Kinukawa, Naoko ^b   Sakata, Toshiie ^a  

^a NAKAMURA GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aromatase activity in adipocytes; LDL cholesterol; Postmenopausal women; Subcutaneous fat accumulation

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; AROMATASE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LIPID METABOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AROMATASE; CHOLESTEROL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPOPROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 34548399934     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/0610-RM-257     Document Type: Article

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