CELL SIGNALING:
Fat Stress and Liver Resistance
Wataru Ogawa1 and Masato Kasuga1,2
Communication among immune and fat cells in adipose tissue and liver hepatocytes underlies the pathogenesis of obesity-related insulin resistance.
1Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Metabolism, and Endocrinology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, Japan.
2Research Institute, International Medical Center of Japan, Tokyo 162-8655, Japan. E-mail: kasuga{at}med.kobe-u.ac.jp