Novel Insights into Adipose Cell Functions

Pathological Alteration of Human Adipose Tissue in Obesity.- Dynamics of Human Adipose Tissue. Regulatory Mechanisms and Consequences for Fat Cells and the Whole Body.- Metabolism of Fatty Acids in Adipocytes.- The Role of Hypoxia in Adipocyte Function and Dysfunction.- Brown Adipose Tissue In Humans: A New Target for Anti-Obesity Therapy.- Adipose Tissue Dysfunction: A Multistep Process.- Fat Cell Progenitors: Origins and Plasticity.- Transcriptional Regulation of Brown and White Adipogenesis.- Transcriptional Control of Gene Expression in Different Adipose Tissue Depots.- Epigenetic Approaches to Adipose Biology.- Metabolic and Angiogenic Consequences of the Presence or Absence of UCP1.- Metabolic Responses to Weight Perturbation.- Understanding Causal Relationships in the Metabolic Syndrome: Recent Insights from Extreme Human Phenotypes.