CT Montague, JB Prins, L Sanders, JE Digby, S … - Diabetes, 1997 - Am Diabetes Assoc Obese subjects with excess intra-abdominal fat deposition suffer greater adverse
metabolic consequences than do similarly overweight subjects with a
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F Hube, U Lietz, M Igel, PB Jensen, H … - Hormone and metabolic research= Hormon-und …, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Differences in fat cell size and function among adipose tissue depots are well
known and may be important in the pathophysiology of the metabolic and
cardiovascular complications of obesity. Since the newly discovered ... Cited by 113 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
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the regulation of body fat distribution, but leptin may be involved. This study
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AM Lefebvre, M Laville, N Vega, JP Riou, L … - Diabetes, 1998 - Am Diabetes Assoc Intra-abdominal and subcutaneous adipose tissue display important metabolic
differences that underlie the association of visceral, but not subcutaneous, fat
with obesity-related cardiovascular and metabolic problems. Because the ... Cited by 217 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
H Masuzaki, Y Ogawa, N Isse, N Satoh, T … - Diabetes, 1995 - Am Diabetes Assoc The obese (ob) gene, the mutation of which results in severe hereditary obesity
and diabetes in mice, has recently been isolated through positional cloning. In
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CT Montague, JB Prins, L Sanders, J Zhang, … - DIABETES-NEW YORK-, 1998 - Am Diabetes Assoc Human omental adipocytes display a range of bio- chemical properties that
distinguish them from adipocytes of subcutaneous origin. However, informa- tion
about site-related gene expression in human fat cells is limited. We have ... Cited by 197 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
M Rosenbaum, M Nicolson, J Hirsch, SB … - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1996 - Endocrine Soc Page 1. 0021.972x/96/$03.00/0 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
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central nervous system to regulate energy homeostasis. Circulating leptin mainly
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