Adapting to obesity with adipose tissue inflammation

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 633-643

  Reilly, Shannon M ^a   Saltiel, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; INSULIN; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; BEIGE ADIPOSE TISSUE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CELL DEATH; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTESTINE; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OVERNUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADAPTATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADIPOCYTES; ADIPOSE TISSUE; CATECHOLAMINES; ENERGY METABOLISM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; OBESITY; OVERNUTRITION;

EID: 85031317304     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2017.90     Document Type: Review

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