Endocrine Abstracts

Obesity results from an imbalance between energy intake and expenditure. The WHO has considered it as a chronic disease which is associated with many complications, such as insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, etc. It is defined as an abnormal or excessive accumulation of body fat that can harm health. The distribution of this fat (visceral and subcutaneous), the size of the adipocytes and the inflammatory state of the adipose tissue are of great importance in the progressi...

The control of obesity and the regulation of its components are strongly linked to nutrition. Thus, low calorie diets restricted in carbohydrates and lipids are becoming increasingly suitable for combating the complications of obesity. In the present work, we propose to report the short-term repercussions of dietary carbohydrate and lipid restriction on the weight parameters of the obese gerbil. Our experiment was undertaken on a species of gerbil (Gerbillus tarabuli) and last...

Obesity is associated with low-grade systemic inflammation, indeed the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines by mesenteric adipose tissue has been implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases of the small intestine: duodenum, jejunum and ileum. This is the main site of intestinal inflammation. The objective of this work is to study the effect of a high calorie diet on the histology of the ileum in Psammomys obesus. The animals were captured in the area o...