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ReviewBiomolecules2025

How Adipocytes Orchestrate Inflammation Within Adipose Tissue?

Romane Higos, Gianluca Renzi, Paul Taillandier, Fatiha Merabtene, Christine Rouault, Jimon Boniface Abatan, Mélanie Lambert, Isabelle Dugail, Karine Clément, Geneviève Marcelin and 3 more

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Review in Biomolecules, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Romane HigosNutrition and Obesities: Systemic Approach Research Group, Nutriomics, Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), 75013 Paris, France.
Gianluca RenziDepartment of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Hospital, 14186 Stockholm, Sweden.
Paul TaillandierNutrition and Obesities: Systemic Approach Research Group, Nutriomics, Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), 75013 Paris, France.
Fatiha MerabteneNutrition and Obesities: Systemic Approach Research Group, Nutriomics, Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), 75013 Paris, France.
Christine RouaultNutrition and Obesities: Systemic Approach Research Group, Nutriomics, Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), 75013 Paris, France.
Jimon Boniface AbatanNutrition and Obesities: Systemic Approach Research Group, Nutriomics, Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), 75013 Paris, France.
Mélanie LambertU1349 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, 93022 Bobigny, France.
Isabelle DugailNutrition and Obesities: Systemic Approach Research Group, Nutriomics, Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), 75013 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0003-3631-2252
Karine ClémentNutrition and Obesities: Systemic Approach Research Group, Nutriomics, Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), 75013 Paris, France.
Geneviève MarcelinNutrition and Obesities: Systemic Approach Research Group, Nutriomics, Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), 75013 Paris, France.
Salwan MaqdasyDepartment of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Hospital, 14186 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-5164-9879
Christophe BretonU1283-UMR8199-European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Université de Lille, INSERM, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, 59000 Lille, France.ORCID 0000-0002-5982-7307
Simon LecoutreNutrition and Obesities: Systemic Approach Research Group, Nutriomics, Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), 75013 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-2536-6119

Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-AGAATAssociation Française d'Etude et de Recherche sur l'Obésité (AFERO) AFEROEuropean Foundation for the Study of Diabetes EFSD/Lilly Young Investigator Research Award ApplicationFondation pour la Recherche Médicale EQU202003010145
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adipose tissue is far more than a passive reservoir for surplus energy: it is an active metabolic and endocrine organ that senses nutrient availability and orchestrates systemic energy balance. When caloric intake chronically exceeds expenditure, adipocytes become engorged with lipids and exposed to metabolic, mechanical, and hypoxic stress. To adapt, they initiate a fibro-inflammatory response that may be protective in the short term. As this response becomes chronic, adipocytes lose their metabolic flexibility, acquire a maladaptive fibro-inflammatory phenotype, and contribute to the cascade of inflammation, insulin resistance, and metabolic disease that characterizes obesity. In this review, we dissect the cellular and molecular cues that trigger fibro-inflammation, from nutrient excess and mitochondrial stress to hypoxia and immunometabolic rewiring, and highlight how these processes reshape adipocyte identity and tissue homeostasis.

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AdipocytesAdipose TissueInflammationAnimalsHumansInsulin ResistanceMiceadipocytefibro-inflammationobesity

Identifiers

PMID41594599
PMCPMC12839144

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