Mesenteric Adipose Tissue: The New Player in Health and Disease
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 160
Special Issue Editors
Interests: obesity; adipose tissue; mesentery; bariatric surgery; metabolic diseases; inflammatory process
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, adipose tissue has been revealed as an important player in the pathophysiology of a wide variety of diseases due to its endocrine role. The white adipose tissue is distributed all along the body as subcutaneous or surrounding the viscera. One of the visceral adipose tissues, which will become the focus of more attention in the following years, is mesenteric adipose tissue.
Mesenteric adipose tissue has recently been described as a contiguous organ in direct connection with all abdominal digestive organs, which gives it a key location, i.e., in the center of the entero-hepatic axis. Thus, a better knowledge of this organ would shed light on the understanding of pathology development, such as Crohn’s disease or MASLD, and would pave the way for innovative therapeutic approaches from a new perspective.
In this Special Issue of IJMS, supervised by the Guest Editor group and assisted by Dr. Júlia Carmona-Maurici (University of Barcelona), we warmly welcome research and review articles addressing the characterization of the mesenteric adipose tissue (from a physiological to molecular point of view) in both human and animal models, as well as its involvement in diseases such as obesity, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), inflammatory bowel diseases, or cancer.
Dr. Eva Pardina
Prof. Dr. Jose M. Balibrea
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mesenteric adipose tissue
- obesity
- inflammatory bowel diseases
- Chron’s disease
- MASLD
- metabolic inflammation
- metabolic syndrome
- mesenteric resections
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