Adipose Tissue and Adipokines in Health and Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fantuzzi, Giamila (Editor), Mazzone, Theodore (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2007.
• Series: Nutrition and Health
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Nutrition.; Diabetes.; Endocrinology.; Gastroenterology.; Clinical nutrition.; Medicine & Public Health.; Clinical Nutrition.; Human Physiology.
• Physical Description: XXII, 400 p. 50 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781597453707

The aim of Adipose Tissue and Adipokines in Health and Disease is to provide comprehensive information regarding adipose tissue, its physiological functions and its role in disease. This volume contains a collection of information spanning the entire range of adipose tissue studies, from basic anatomical and physiological research to epidemiology and clinical aspects, in one place. This book is indispensable for basic researchers and clinicians interested in the fields of obesity, metabolic diseases, inflammation and immunity, and specialists in each of the pathologies associated with obesity.