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Obesity and susceptibility to autoimmune diseases.
Expert review of clinical immunology - 1 May 2011
Procaccini Claudio, Carbone Fortunata, Galgani Mario, La Rocca Claudia, De Rosa Veronica, Cassano Silvana, Matarese Giuseppe
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For decades, obesity has been considered to be the result of the complex interaction between genes and the environment and its pathogenesis is still unresolved. The discovery of hormones and neural mediators responsible for the control of food intake and metabolism at the hypothalamic level has provided fundamental insights into the complicated pathways that control food intake. However, the molecular basis for...
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