Adipose Tissue and Adipokines in Health and Disease

Part I. Adipose Tissue: Structure and Function 1. Adipose Tissue in Evolution - Karin Isler 2. Adipose Stem Cells and Adipogenesis - Yourka D. Tchoukalova and Ursula A. White 3. Metabolism of White Adipose Tissue - Michel Beylot 4. Bad Fat or Just More Fat? Murine Models of Metabolically-Healthy Obesity - Grace Bennett, Andrew S. Greenberg, and Martin S. Obin 5. The Aging Adipose Organ: Lipid Redistribution, Inflammation, and Cellular Senescence - James L. Kirkland, Michael B. Stout, and Tamara Tchkonia 6. Adipokines: Leptin and Adiponectin in the regulation of inflammatory and immune responses - Giamila Fantuzzi Part II. Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Adipocyte Dysfunction in Obesity 7. Adipose Tissue Inflammation - Verena Wieser, Alexander R. Moschen, and Herbert Tilg 8. Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Adipose Tissue Function - Michael Pagliassotti, Gretchen Moran, Andrea Estrada, and Michelle T. Foster 9. Autophagy in White Adipose Tissue - Scott G. Goldman, Hanlin Tao, and Shengkan 'Victor' Jin 10. Obesity and Micronutrient Deficiencies - Lisa Tussing-Humphrey and Van T.Q. Nguyen Part III. Obesity 11. Epidemiology of Obesity in Children - Youfa Wang and Hyunjung Lim 12. Genetics of Obesity - Beatrice Dubern and Patrick Tounian 13. Epigenetics of Obesity - Simonetta Friso and Sang-Woon Choi 14. Consequences of Rapid Weight Loss - Niu Zhang, Irene Lo, and Ashutosh Kaul Part IV. Adipose Tissue and Disease 15. Human Lipodystrophy: An Update on Molecular Genetics and Possible Mechanisms of Fat Loss - Anil K. Agarwal 16. Adipose Tissue and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus - Bernardo Leo Wajchenberg and Ricardo V. Cohen 17. Adipokines in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease - Ancha Barranova, Aybike Biererdinc, and Zobair M. Younossi 18. Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease - Edmond Obeng-Gyimah and Flora Sam 19. Respiratory Diseases in Obesity - David G. Chapman, Benjamin T. Surett, and Anne E. Dixon 20. Adiposity & Kidney Disease - Josephine D. Abraham and Srinavasan Beddhu 21. Obesity and Joint Disease - Yuan Z. Lim, Anita E. Wluka, Yuanyuan Wang, and Flavia M. Cicuttini 22. Obesity and Colon and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer - Patricia M. Sheean, Sandra L. Gomez-Perez, Puja Agarwal, & Carol Braunschweig