Editors:
Provides a comprehensive guide and essential reading for doctors, healthcare workers and scientists.
Offers comprehensive insight into current perspectives and challenges in adipose tissue biology.
Discusses 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.
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is designed to provide a comprehensive insight into current perspectives and challenges in adipose tissue biology. In <i>Adipose Tissue Biology</i>, 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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Queen's Medical Centre, School of Human Development, University Hospital, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Michael E. Symonds
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adipose Tissue Biology
Editors: Michael E. Symonds
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0965-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9832-3Published: 26 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-0965-6Published: 20 November 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 414
Topics: Human Physiology, Neurosciences
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Consumer Packaged Goods, Health & Hospitals, Pharma