Cellular and Molecular Factors in Adipose Tissue Growth and Obesity
- 1 January 1993
- book chapter
- Published by Springer Nature
- Vol. 334, 269-277
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2910-1_20
Abstract
One of the major challenges in biology and medicine is the unravelling of the fundamental abnormality imparting vulnerability to the development of obesity. The experimental approaches adopted to date have simply not provided the solution. It is pertinent, particularly in the context of this meeting, that obesity frequently triggers or aggravates non-insulin-dependent diabetes. Thus, prevention or effective treatment of obesity would also have a prophylactic or ameliorative effect on type II diabetes. This paper will review and provide new data about the proposed functions of heparin-binding (fibroblast) growth factors in relation to adipose cell dynamics and processes opposing adipose differentiation.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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