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Adipose tissue as a humoral-neuronal hub in metabolic regulation

Fat tissue acts as a signaling hub for metabolism and disease, revealing new therapeutic targets for obesity and diabetes complications.

Joslin Diabetes Center/Harvard Nature Reviews Endocrinology synthesis integrates current understanding of adipose tissue as a dynamic endocrine and neural signaling hub, mapping therapeutic opportunities for obesity, T2DM, and cardiometabolic disease through humoral and neuronal pathway targeting.

What the study was

Study design
Narrative review
Population
Obesity, T2DM, metabolic syndrome populations
Category
Prevention
Maturity
Validated
Journal
Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Why it surfaced

Nat Rev Endocrinol; authoritative adipose biology synthesis for cardiometabolic pipeline context.

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