ea0094s2.2 | Metabolism under pressure – what has stress got to do with it? | SFEBES2023
Spalding Kirsty
Many metabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, strongly associate with obesity, making obesity one of the major health challenges facing the world today. Obesity is usually accompanied by an increase in fat cell size. As fat cells enlarge, they begin to secrete factors which promote adipose tissue inflammation and dysfunction. We recently describe a mechanism connecting an increase in fat cell size (hypertrophy) with the secretion of pro-inflammatory factors: We show that...