Provides comprehensive information regarding adipose tissue, its physiological functions and its role in disease. This volume contains a collection of information spanning the range of adipose tissue studies, from basic anatomical and physiological research to epidemiology and clinical aspects, in one place.

The aim of "Adipose Tissue and Adipokines in Health and Disease" is to provide comprehensive information regarding adipose tissue, its physiological functions and its role in disease. This volume contains a collection of information spanning the entire range of adipose tissue studies, from basic anatomical and physiological research to epidemiology and clinical aspects, in one place. This book is indispensable for basic researchers and clinicians interested in the fields of obesity, metabolic diseases, inflammation and immunity, and specialists in each of the pathologies associated with obesity.

Adipose tissue and adipokines in health and disease
Editors: Giamila Fantuzzi and Theodore Mazzone
Series Editor Page
Adrianne Bendich
Foreword
Andrew P. Goldberg and Susan K. Fried
Introduction
Giamila Fantuzzi and Theodore Mazzone
Adipose tissue: structure and function
The adipose organ
Saverio Cinti
Metabolism of white adipose tissue
Michel Beylot
Leptin
Malaka B. Jackson and Rexford S. Ahima
Adiponectin
Aimin Xu, Yu Wang and Karen S L Lam
Adipokines as regulators of immunity and inflammation
Vasoactive factors and inflammatory mediators produced in adipose tissue
Gema Fruhbeck
Regulation of the immune response by leptin
Victor Sanchez-Margalet, Patricia Fernandez-Riejos, Carmen Gonzalez-Yanes, Souad Najib, Consuelo Martin-Romero and Jose Santos-Alvarez
Leptin in autoimmune disease
Giuseppe Matarese. Leptin and gastrointestinal inflammation
Arvind Batra and Britta Siegmund
Adiponectin and inflammation
Yuji Matsuzawa
Interactions between adipocytes and immune cells
Macrophages, adipocytes and obesity
Anthony W. Ferrante, Jr
Interactions of adipose and lymphoid tissues
Caroline M. Pond
Adipose tissue and mast cells: adipokines as yin-yang modulators of inflammation
George N. Chaldakov, Anton B. Tonchev, Nese Tuncel, Pepa Atannasova and Luigi Aloe
Bone marrow adipose tissue
Patrick Laharrague and Louis Castella
The obesity epidemics
Environmental aspects of obesity
Lisa Diewald, Myles S. Faith M and Meredith Dolan
The genetics of obesity: five fundamental problems with the famine hypothesis
John R. Speakman
Developmental perspectives on the origins of obesity
Cristopher W. Kuzawa, Peter D. Gluckman and Mark A. Hanson
The epidemiology of obesity
Carol A. Braunschweig.