ea0014s24.3 | Obesity | ECE2007
Fernández-Real José Manuel
Decreased insulin action has been proposed as the common factor that is in the background of the different components of the metabolic syndrome. Insulin resistance is also associated with a chronic activation of the innate immune system. The innate immune system constitutes the first line of bodys defence and it is constituted by different barriers (epithelia, adipose tissue), and different blood and tissue components as macrophages, and neutrophils. Once activated, the ...