Erschienen in:
01.05.2004 | Commentary
Is “Cushing’s disease of the omentum” an affliction of mouse and men?
verfasst von:
B. R. Walker
Erschienen in:
Diabetologia
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Ausgabe 5/2004
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Excerpt
Adipose tissue is increasingly recognised as an “endocrine factory”, releasing many newly identified hormones such as leptin, resistin, adiponectin etc. These discoveries have stirred enthusiasm for investigating “older” hormones that are also released from adipose tissue. One of these is cortisol, putatively generated in excess in omental adipose tissue in obese people [
1], increasing glucocorticoid receptor activation in adipose and being released into the portal circulation to act also in the liver and exacerbate the metabolic complications of the obesity. …