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Obesity, innate immunity and gut inflammation.
Current opinion in gastroenterology - 1 Nov 2007
Karagiannides Iordanes, Pothoulakis Charalabos
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The purpose of this review is to present recent data on how obesity-associated conditions may affect innate immunity and its role in the development of gut inflammation. RECENT FINDINGS: Here we present studies that demonstrate the participation of adipose tissue components in the generation of inflammation. More specifically, we describe increases in the release of proinflammatory cytokines...
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