Virtue Samuel, Vidal-Puig Antonio
Institute of Metabolic Science, Metabolic Research Laboratories, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
PLoS Biol. 2008 Sep 23;6(9):e237. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060237.
Mechanisms underlying obesity-related metabolic disorders are poorly understood. Samuel Virtue and Antonio Vidal-Puig explore the evidence for an emerging hypothesis that attributes metabolic complications not to obesity per se, but to an individual's capacity for adipose tissue expandability.
肥胖相关代谢紊乱背后的机制尚不清楚。塞缪尔·美德和安东尼奥·维达尔-皮格探讨了一种新出现假说的证据,该假说认为代谢并发症并非源于肥胖本身,而是源于个体脂肪组织的扩张能力。