Chaperoning to the metabolic party: The emerging therapeutic role of heat-shock proteins in obesity and type 2 diabetes

Background: From their initial, accidental discovery 50 years ago, the highly conserved Heat Shock Proteins (HSPs) continue to exhibit fundamental roles in the protection of cell integrity. Meanwhile, in the midst of an obesity epidemic, research demonstrates a key involvement of low grade inflammat...

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Main Authors: Darren C. Henstridge, Martin Whitham, Mark A. Febbraio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-11-01
Series:Molecular Metabolism
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221287781400146X