Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Research and Perspectives in Endocrine Interactions (RPEI)
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Book Title: Novel Insights into Adipose Cell Functions
Editors: Yves Christen, Karine Clément, Bruce M. Spiegelman
Series Title: Research and Perspectives in Endocrine Interactions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13517-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-13516-3Due: 30 August 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50647-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-13517-0Published: 14 September 2010
Series ISSN: 1861-2253
Series E-ISSN: 1863-0685
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 147
Topics: Biomedicine general