Adipose tissue and intestinal inflammation – Visceral obesity and Creeping Fat
Obesity has become one of the main threats to health worldwide and therefore gained increasing clinical and economic significance as well as scientific attention. General adipose tissue accumulation in obesity is associated with systemically increased pro-inflammatory mediators and humoral and cellu...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Immunology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2014.00462/full |