British Journal of Nutrition

Invited Commentary

Expanded adipose tissue: ‘out of breath’ and inflamed

Henrike Sella1 and Juergen Eckela1

a1 Institute of Clinical Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry German Diabetes Center Auf'm Hennekamp 65 40225 Düsseldorf Germany eckel@uni-duesseldorf.de

The study of hypoxia in adipose tissue in relation to obesity is timely, since some very recent studies have put these topics in a physiological context.

(Online publication April 03 2008)

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