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Early programming of adipose tissue function: a large-animal perspective
1 Sept 2009
Abstract excerpt
The emerging role of adipose tissue as a dynamic endocrine organ with an extent of anatomical and physiological plasticity has generated numerous studies linking early-life events with long-term alterations in adipose tissue structure and function. Coupled with increasing rates of human obesity, which cannot be explained without some genetic component, the role of early programming of adipose tissue may provide...
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