Physiologic basis for the control of body fat distribution in humans.
Physiologic basis for the control of body fat distribution in humans.
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控制人体脂肪分布的生理基础。
DOI:
10.1146/annurev.nu.09.070189.002221
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发表时间:
1989
影响因子:
8.9
通讯作者:
Fried,SK
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作者:
Leibel,RL;Edens,NK;Fried,SK
The anatomical distribution of adipose tissue seems to play a role in some of the medical morbidity that accompanies obesity. The biological mechanisms for the association between central adiposity and these morbidities are not known, but high concentrations of free fatty acids in the portal venous circulation may play a role. Most of the variation in fat distribution among persons is probably due to anatomical site-specific differences in number of adipocytes; subtler variations are due to differences in adipocyte size. Control of adipocyte precursor production, recruitment and differentiation, and possible regional variations in these processes, is poorly understood but is apparently influenced by genetic, endocrine and nutritional factors as well as clonal differences between adipocytes in different anatomical sites. Sensitivity and responsiveness to insulin, catecholamines and adenosine as well as the enzymes controlling the synthesis (e.g., lipoprotein lipase) and hydrolysis of triglyceride are influenced by anatomical site, nutritional state and other endocrines (e.g., triiodothyronine, gonadal and adrenal steroids). The fact that body proportions remain more or less constant despite substantial increases or decreases in body fat suggests that between-site differences in thein vitrostatus of these receptors and biochemical processes may not fully reflect eventsin vivo. In vivoregulation of fat-cell size in different fat depots reflects a complex interplay of the effects of many hormones, autocrine regulators and other local factors such as blood flow. Whatever the local mechanisms involved, the "first order" character of triglyceride loss from specific depots indicates that,in vivo,depot mobilization is proportional to regional adipocyte number and size.