Adipose tissue recruitment of leukocytes.
AUTHORS
Anderson
EKEmily K ,
Gutierrez
DA Dario A ,
Hasty
AH Alyssa H .
Current opinion in lipidology. 2010 6 ; 21(3).
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- PMID: 20410821[PubMed].
- PMCID: PMC3381420.
- NIHMSID: NIHMS385639
ABSTRACT
In December of 2003, two seminal articles describing the presence of macrophages in obese adipose tissue were published. These adipose tissue macrophages (ATMs) are inflammatory and promote local and systemic insulin resistance. Due to the continuing rise in obesity around the world, understanding how these ATMs contribute to metabolic disorders is of much interest.