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Unique metabolic activation of adipose tissue macrophages in obesity promotes inflammatory responses.
Diabetologia - 1 Apr 2018
Boutens Lily, Hooiveld Guido J, Dhingra Sourabh, Cramer Robert A, Netea Mihai G, Stienstra Rinke
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Recent studies have identified intracellular metabolism as a fundamental determinant of macrophage function. In obesity, proinflammatory macrophages accumulate in adipose tissue and trigger chronic low-grade inflammation, that promotes the development of systemic insulin resistance, yet changes in their intracellular energy metabolism are currently unknown. We therefore set out to study metabolic...
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