Interplay between the immune system and adipose tissue in obesity

Mark A Exley¹, Laura Hand², Donal O'Shea²+1

• ¹Department of MedicineBrigham and Women's Hospital, Thorn Bldg, 1405, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USAFaculty of Medical and Human SciencesManchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research (MCCIR), University of Manchester, 46 Grafton Street, CTF Building Room 2.14b, Manchester M13 9NT, UKDepartment of EndocrinologySt. Vincent's University Hospital, University College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandDepartment of MedicineBrigham and Women's Hospital, Smith Building, Harvard Medical School, One Jimmy Fund Way, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA Department of MedicineBrigham and Women's Hospital, Thorn Bldg, 1405, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USAFaculty of Medical and Human SciencesManchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research (MCCIR), University of Manchester, 46 Grafton Street, CTF Building Room 2.14b, Manchester M13 9NT, UKDepartment of EndocrinologySt. Vincent's University Hospital, University College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandDepartment of MedicineBrigham and Women's Hospital, Smith Building, Harvard Medical School, One Jimmy Fund Way, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA mexley@partners.org.+1