An increase in fat mass is considered to be an important risk factor for the worldwide
increase in type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, for a given fat mass, there …

Insulin resistance results when peripheral tissues, including adipose, skeletal muscle, and
liver, do not respond appropriately to insulin, causing the ineffective uptake of glucose. This …

The body mass index (BMI) is the metric currently in use for defining anthropometric
height/weight characteristics in adults and for classifying (categorizing) them into groups …

Background The incidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is rapidly increasing
worldwide parallel to the global obesity epidemic. NAFLD encompasses a range of liver …

Glucocorticoids are popular hormones to measure in both biomedical and ecological studies
of stress. Many assumptions used to interpret glucocorticoid results are derived from …

An improved understanding of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease epidemiology would lead to
identification of individuals at high risk of developing chronic liver disease and extra-hepatic …

The objective of this review was to compare and contrast the physiological and metabolic
profiles of rodent white adipose fat pads with white adipose fat depots in humans. Human fat …

The omentum is a visceral adipose tissue with unique immune functions. Although it is
primarily an adipose tissue, the omentum also contains lymphoid aggregates, called milky …

Adipocytes are the main constituent of adipose tissue and are considered to be a corner
stone in the homeostatic control of whole body metabolism. Their primary function is to …

Adipose tissue is a central metabolic organ. Unlike other organs, adipose tissue is
compartmentalized into individual depots and distributed throughout the body. These …