Fat tissue and pulmonary diseases: a new link?
Hot topicsChairs: 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.