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Impaired alternative macrophage differentiation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from obese subjects.
Diabetes & vascular disease research - 1 Jul 2012
Bories Gael, Caiazzo Robert, Derudas Bruno, Copin Corinne, Raverdy Violeta, Pigeyre Marie, Pattou Francois, Staels Bart, Chinetti-Gbaguidi Giulia
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Visceral obesity is a chronic, low-grade inflammatory disease that predisposes people to the metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and its cardiovascular complications. Adipose tissue is not a passive storehouse for fat, but an endocrine organ synthesizing and releasing a variety of bioactive molecules, some of which are produced by infiltrated immune-inflammatory cells including macrophages. Two different...
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