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 …

Obesity is accompanied by the development of chronic low-grade inflammation in adipose
tissue. The presence of chronic inflammatory response along with metabolically harmful …

White adipose tissue is no longer considered an inert tissue mainly devoted to energy
storage but is emerging as an active participant in regulating physiologic and pathologic …

Obesity is characterized by the chronic low-grade activation of the innate immune system. In
this respect, macrophage-elicited metabolic inflammation and adipocyte-macrophage …

Once thought of as purely the body's chief energy store, adipose tissue and its constituent
adipocytes have emerged as both a metabolic entity and an endocrine one. Complement is …

The adipocyte metabolism has been shown to change during the fat enlargement process
associated to obesity. Several procoagulant proteins such as plasminogen activator inhibitor …

The functional relationships between lymphoid cells and the adipose tissue that surrounds
lymph nodes were investigated in healthy adult guinea pigs. Lymphoid cells extracted from …

This review summarizes recent data on the characterization of the macrophage population
in fat tissue. Their origin, fate and activation will be considered. The potential involvement of …

Adipose tissue is a dynamic organ that makes up a substantial proportion of the body; in
severe obesity it can account for 50% of body mass. Details of the unique immune system …

Adipose tissue has traditionally been defined as connective tissue that stores excess
calories in the form of triacylglycerol. However, the physiologic functions attributed to …