Obesity increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and premature death. Adipose tissue
releases a large number of bioactive mediators that influence not only body weight …

Obese patients are at risk for the development of cardiovascular diseases, which can in part
be explained by disturbances in the haemostatic and fibrinolytic systems. Indeed, obese …

Several large epidemiological studies have shown an association between body mass
index and blood pressure in normal weight and overweight patients. Weight gain in adult life …

Accepted after revision: July 10, 1999 ssss An intense physical exercise induces an
inflammatory reaction as demonstrated by the delayed increase in blood of acute phase …

Urine is commonly used for clinical diagnosis and biomedical research. The discovery of
extracellular vesicles (EV) in urine opened a new fast‐growing scientific field. In the last …

Summary The neuropeptide Pigment-Dispersing Factor (PDF) is a principle transmitter
regulating circadian locomotor rhythms in Drosophila. We have identified a Class II (secretin …

Background & Aims Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) have been
implicated in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) pathogenesis, mainly based on animal …

In 33 male and female adult volunteers, eye position recording were performed by means of
an infrared reflection technique. Slides of randomly shuffled black-and-white photographs …

As part of a study of the structural-functional correlations of excised human lungs obtained at
autopsy, the parenchyma and peripheral airways were examined by means of morphometric …

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are endocrine‐disrupting chemicals associated with the
development of the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. In humans, little is known …