Crosstalk between immune cells and adipocytes requires both paracrine factors and cell contact to modify cytokine secretion.

Increased adiposity results in a heightened infiltration of immune cells into fat depots, which in turn generates a pro-inflammatory phenotype in obese individuals. To better understand the causal factors that establish this pro-inflammatory profile, we examined events leading to crosstalk between a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Carolina Franco Nitta, Robert A Orlando
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3804580?pdf=render