Novel insights into adipose cell functions

Obesity is a disease of society and economic transition spreading at an epidemic pace throughout the world. According to the World Health Organization, obesity is defined as an increased or abnormal accumulation of body fat mass to the extent that individual’s health will be negatively affected. Overweight is thus being considered as top at risk condition in the world and it is mandatory to identify the physiopathological causes involved in adipose tissue enlargement and related metabolic and cardiovascular health disorders.This volume provides the most up to date insights into the biology of a complex endocrine organ: the adipose tissue. Obesity is considered as top at risk condition in the world and it is mandatory to identify the physiopathological causes involved in adipose tissue enlargement and related metabolic and cardiovascular health disorders Environmental, behavioural, genetic, epigenetic and multiple biological factors interact to cause obesity In this context adipose tissue depots have been under focus in the last decades and pivotal concepts have emerged from the studies of their complex biology INDICE: Foreword. Pathological alteration of human adipose tissue in obesity. Dynamics of human adipose tissue. regulatory mechanisms and consequences for fat cells and whole body. Metabolism of fatty acids in adipocytes. Hypoxia – role in adipocyte function and dysfunction. Brown adipose tissue in humans –a new target for anti-obesity therapy. Adipose tissue dysfunction: a multistep process. Fat cell progenitors: origins and plasticity. Transcriptional regulation of brown and white adipogenesis. Transcriptional Control of Gene Expression in Different Adipose Tissue Depots. Epigenetic approaches to adipose biology. Metabolic and angiogenic consequences of the presence or absence of UCP1. Metabolic responses to weight perturbation. Understanding causal relationshipsin the metabolic syndrome – recent insights from extreme human phenotypes. Subject index

• ISBN: 978-3-642-13516-3
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 160
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés