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SUBMITTER: Kwon H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4268106 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kwon Hyokjoon H Laurent Sarnia S Tang Yan Y Zong Haihong H Vemulapalli Pratibha P Pessin Jeffrey E JE
Cell reports 20141126 5
Adipose tissue inflammation is one pathway shown to mediate insulin resistance in obese humans and rodents. Obesity induces dynamic cellular changes in adipose tissue to increase proinflammatory cytokines and diminish anti-inflammatory cytokines. However, we have found that anti-inflammatory interleukin-13 (IL-13) is unexpectedly induced in adipose tissue of obese humans and high-fat diet (HFD)-fed mice, and the source of IL-13 is primarily the adipocyte. Moreover, HFD-induced proinflammatory cy ...[more]