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SUBMITTER: Michailidou Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3281676 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Michailidou Zoi Z Turban Sophie S Miller Eileen E Zou Xiantong X Schrader Joerg J Ratcliffe Peter J PJ Hadoke Patrick W F PW Walker Brian R BR Iredale John P JP Morton Nicholas M NM Seckl Jonathan R JR
The Journal of biological chemistry 20111212 6
In obesity, rapidly expanding adipose tissue becomes hypoxic, precipitating inflammation, fibrosis, and insulin resistance. Compensatory angiogenesis may prevent these events. Mice lacking the intracellular glucocorticoid-amplifying enzyme 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11βHSD1(-/-)) have "healthier" adipose tissue distribution and resist metabolic disease with diet-induced obesity. Here we show that adipose tissues of 11βHSD1(-/-) mice exhibit attenuated hypoxia, induction of hypoxia- ...[more]