Fat tissue and pulmonary diseases: a new link?

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Chairs: E. F. M. Wouters (Maastricht, The Netherlands), C. Kaehler (Innsbruck, Austria)
Aims: At the end of this symposium the audience will:
- be updated upon the immune-potentiating functions of adipokines;
- know that adipokines play a prominent role in the innate host response in experimental animal models of COPD, bacterial pneumonia and asthma;
- appreciate the role of adipokines in the pathogenesis of human pulmonary (vascular) diseases.
Adipose tissue: a major player in sleep-disordered breathing
P. Levy (Grenoble, France)
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