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Novel Insights into Adipose Cell Functions

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Editors:
  1. Yves Christen

    1. Fondation IPSEN, Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex, France

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  2. Karine Clément

    1. , Endocrinology and Nutrition Department, Pitié Salpetrière Hospital, Paris, France

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  3. Bruce M. Spiegelman

    1. and the Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA

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  • 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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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Pathological Alteration of Human Adipose Tissue in Obesity

    • Karine Clément
    Pages 1-13

  3. Dynamics of Human Adipose Tissue. Regulatory Mechanisms and Consequences for Fat Cells and the Whole Body

    • Peter Arner
    Pages 15-19

  4. Metabolism of Fatty Acids in Adipocytes

    • A. L. Dinel, C. Kolditz, D. Langin
    Pages 21-43

  5. The Role of Hypoxia in Adipocyte Function and Dysfunction

    • Paul Trayhurn, Fátima Pérez de Heredia, Bohan Wang, I. Stuart Wood
    Pages 45-60

  6. Brown Adipose Tissue In Humans: A New Target for Anti-Obesity Therapy

    • Sven Enerbäck
    Pages 61-66

  7. Adipose Tissue Dysfunction: A Multistep Process

    • Kai Sun, Philipp E. Scherer
    Pages 67-75

  8. Fat Cell Progenitors: Origins and Plasticity

    • Christian Dani
    Pages 77-87

  9. Transcriptional Regulation of Brown and White Adipogenesis

    • Bruce M. Spiegelman
    Pages 89-92

  10. Transcriptional Control of Gene Expression in Different Adipose Tissue Depots

    • Stephen R. Farmer
    Pages 93-100

  11. Epigenetic Approaches to Adipose Biology

    • Evan D. Rosen
    Pages 101-110

  12. Metabolic and Angiogenic Consequences of the Presence or Absence of UCP1

    • Barbara Cannon, Jan Nedergaard
    Pages 111-120

  13. Metabolic Responses to Weight Perturbation

    • Rudolph L. Leibel, Michael Rosenbaum
    Pages 121-133

  14. Understanding Causal Relationships in the Metabolic Syndrome: Recent Insights from Extreme Human Phenotypes

    • David B. Savage
    Pages 135-144

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 145-147
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fondation IPSEN, Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex, France

    Yves Christen

  • , Endocrinology and Nutrition Department, Pitié Salpetrière Hospital, Paris, France

    Karine Clément

  • and the Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA

    Bruce M. Spiegelman

Bibliographic Information

  • 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

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