Main description:

This book is designed to provide a comprehensive insight into current perspectives and challenges in adipose tissue biology. In Adipose Tissue Biology, scientists and clinicians discuss adipocyte precursors, differentiation and growth, brown and white adipose tissue, gender, inflammation, dietary and genetic determinants of fat mass, together with evolutionary and developmental aspects of adiposity.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Adipocyte precursors: developmental origins, self renewal and plasticity
C Dani, N Billon

Chapter 2: Adipocyte differentiation
J.M. Moreno-Navarrete, J.M.Fernandez-Real

Chapter 3: Brown adipose tissue
Martin Klingenspor, Tobias Fromme

Chapter 4: White Adipose Tissue
Stephane Gesta, C. Ronald Kahn

Chapter 5: Sex differences in body fat distribution
Alain Veilleux, Andre Tchernof

Chapter 6: Macrophages and inflammation
Elise Dalmas, Joan Tordjman, Michele Guerre-Millo, Karine Clement

Chapter 7: Adipocyte Growth and Factors Influencing Adipocyte Life Cycle
Srujana Rayalam, Clifton A. Baile

Chapter 8: The Evolution of Mammalian Adipose Tissue
Caroline M. Pond

Chapter 9: Dietary determinants of fat mass and body composition
Maria A. Zulet, Maria J. Moreno-Aliaga, J. Alfredo Martinez

Chapter 10: The genetic determinants of common obesity-susceptibility
Ruth J.F. Loos

Chapter 11: Early Origins of Obesity and Developmental Regulation of Adiposity
Shalini Ojha, Helen Budge