Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Obesity is associated to a pro-inflammatory state with a different pattern of response from the classical response. Also, obesity is associated to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). In this sense, natural killer T (NKT) cells are a subset of innate immune cells that abundantly reside within the liver and are readily activated by lipid antigens. However, the phenotype and functional characteristics of these cells are no clear in the immune homeostasis in o...