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Abstract
Chronic, low-grade inflammation of visceral adipose tissue, and systemically, is a critical link between recent strikingly parallel rises in the incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Macrophages have been recognized for some time to be critical participants in obesity-induced inflammation of adipose tissue. Of late, a score of other cell types of the innate and adaptive arms of the immune system have been suggested to play a positive or negative role in adipose tissue infiltrates. This piece reviews the existing data on these new participants; discusses experimental uncertainties, inconsistencies, and complexities; and puts forward a minimalist synthetic scheme.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23747244 PMCID: PMC4264591 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2013.05.008
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Metab ISSN: 1550-4131 Impact factor: 27.287