Endocrine Abstracts

Adipose tissue is a complex, essential, and highly active metabolic and endocrine organ that release a large numbers of bioactive mediators (adipokines). Obesity is defined as an excessive growth of adipose tissue. As such, it is likely that adipokines could play an important role in the development of diseases associated with obesity including insulin resistance, inflammation, hypertension, cardiovascular risk and metabolic disorders. PPARγ is a ligand-activated transcri...