Sepsis-Induced Adipokine Change with regard to Insulin Resistance

• Main Authors: Andreas Hillenbrand (Author), Manfred Weiss (Author), Uwe Knippschild (Author), Anna Maria Wolf (Author), Markus Huber-Lang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background. Assessment of white adipose tissue has changed in recent years, with WAT now being considered as an active endocrine organ, secreting a large number of bioactive mediators, so-called adipokines. Besides other functions, these adipokines are involved in inflammatory response thereby exhib...