Role of Leptin in the Activation of Immune Cells

• Main Authors: Patricia Fernández-Riejos (Author), Souad Najib (Author), Jose Santos-Alvarez (Author), Consuelo Martín-Romero (Author), Antonio Pérez-Pérez (Author), Carmen González-Yanes (Author), Víctor Sánchez-Margalet (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Adipose tissue is an active endocrine organ that secretes various humoral factors (adipokines), and its shift to production of proinflammatory cytokines in obesity likely contributes to the low-level systemic inflammation that may be present in metabolic syndrome-associated chronic pathologies such...