Chronic inflammation in obesity and the metabolic syndrome.

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Published in Mediators Inflamm on July 14, 2010

Authors

Rosário Monteiro1, Isabel Azevedo

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1: Department of Biochemistry (U38-FCT), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Al. Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal. rosariom@med.up.pt

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