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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Chikara Komiya
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-52338 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Nature communications 20140919
In obesity, a paracrine loop between adipocytes and macrophages augments chronic inflammation of adipose tissue, thereby inducing systemic insulin resistance and ectopic lipid accumulation. Obese adipose tissue contains a unique histological structure termed crown-like structure (CLS), where adipocyte-macrophage crosstalk is known to occur in close proximity. Here we show that Macrophage-inducible C-type lectin (Mincle), a pathogen sensor for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is localized to macrophag ...[more]