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Regulation of vascular tone by adipocytes

Recent studies have shown that adipose tissue is an active endocrine and paracrine organ secreting several mediators called adipokines. Adipokines include hormones, inflammatory cytokines and other proteins. In obesity, adipose tissue becomes dysfunctional, resulting in an overproduction of proinfla...

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Autores principales: Maenhaut, Nele, Van de Voorde, Johan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3069942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21410966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-9-25