Proceedings of the 2nd Fribourg Obesity Research Conference

Ectopic fat stores: housekeepers that can overspill into weapons of lean body mass destruction

• A G Dulloo
• V Antic
• J-P Montani

Concept of fat balance in human obesity revisited with particular reference to de novo lipogenesis

• Y Schutz

Failure of fat cell proliferation, mitochondrial function and fat oxidation results in ectopic fat storage, insulin resistance and type II diabetes mellitus

• L Heilbronn
• S R Smith
• E Ravussin

Lipotoxicity, an imbalance between lipogenesis de novo and fatty acid oxidation

• C Lelliott
• A J Vidal-Puig

Substrate cycling between de novo lipogenesis and lipid oxidation: a thermogenic mechanism against skeletal muscle lipotoxicity and glucolipotoxicity

• A G Dulloo
• M Gubler
• G Solinas

Role of energy charge and AMP-activated protein kinase in adipocytes in the control of body fat stores

• M Rossmeisl
• P Flachs
• J Kopecky

Role of glucocorticoids in the physiopathology of excessive fat deposition and insulin resistance

• C Asensio
• P Muzzin
• F Rohner-Jeanrenaud

Fat storage in pancreas and in insulin-sensitive tissues in pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes

• F Assimacopoulos-Jeannet

Ectopic fat storage in heart, blood vessels and kidneys in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases

• J-P Montani
• J F Carroll
• A G Dulloo

Lipotoxicity: the obese and endurance-trained paradox

• A P Russell

Poster Abstracts