Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Obesity results in an imbalance of systemic adipokines as well as pro and anti-inflammatory biomarkers. The attenuation of anti-inflammatory proteins, including Annexin A1 (AnxA1) in human obesity, may be a contributing factor to the chronic inflammatory phenotype which results. However, increased AnxA1 mRNA and protein levels in mature adipocytes suggest an additional role for AnxA1 in adipose tissue biology.Ai...

Introduction: Obesity results in an imbalance of systemic adipokines as well as pro and anti-inflammatory biomarkers. The attenuation of anti-inflammatory proteins, including Annexin A1 (AnxA1) in human obesity, may be a contributing factor to the chronic inflammatory phenotype which results. However, increased AnxA1 mRNA and protein levels in mature adipocytes suggest an additional role for AnxA1 in adipose tissue biology.Ai...

Introduction: Adipose tissue oxygen consumption and blood flow are altered in obesity inducing local tissue hypoxia. Hypoxia affects several biological functions including adipogenesis, inflammation, insulin resistance and metabolism affecting the overall degree of adiposity. The expression of Annexin A1 (ANXA1); an anti-inflammatory protein, increases in the adipose tissue in response to obesity and further increases in the subcutaneous adipose tissue of old obese individuals...

Introduction: Lipodystrophy is a rare medical condition with a varied etiology that is characterised by a complete or partial loss of adipose tissue, which can be generalised, partial or localised. Patients have altered secretion of adipokines, such as, Leptin and Adiponectin. Ectopic lipid accumulation is common and leads to metabolic complications associated with insulin resistance (IR) such as, diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertriglyceridemia. Levels of circulating inflammat...