1. Adipose 'neighborhoods' collaborate to maintain metabolic health.
- Author
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Fried SK
- Subjects
- Humans, Adiposity, Subcutaneous Fat metabolism, Subcutaneous Fat pathology, Intra-Abdominal Fat metabolism, Intra-Abdominal Fat pathology, Obesity metabolism, Adipose Tissue pathology
- Abstract
Body fat is stored in anatomically distinct adipose depots that vary in their cell composition and play specialized roles in systemic metabolic homeostasis via secreted products. Their local effects on nearby tissues (e.g. the gut and visceral adipose tissues) are increasingly recognized and this local crosstalk is being elucidated. The major subcutaneous fat depots, abdominal and gluteal-femoral, exert opposite effects on the risk of metabolic disease. The pace of research into developmental, sex, and genetic determinants of human adipose depot growth and function is rapidly accelerating, providing insight into the pathogenesis of metabolic dysfunction in persons with obesity., Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
- Published
- 2023
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