Angiogenesis in Adipose Tissue

Part I. Historical Review of Angiogenesis

1. Angiogenesis in Diseases and Therapy
Yihai Cao

Part II. Spatiotemporal Relation of Adipocytes and Vascular Cells During Development

2. Adipose Stem Cells
Carolyn Algire, Dasa Medrikova, Stephan Herzig

3. Stromal Vascular Cells
Sahohime Matsumoto, Ichiro Manabe

4. Vascular Adipose Complex
J. Michael Sorrell

Part III. Adipose Vasculature

5. Blood Vessels in White and Brown Adipose Tissues
Sharon Lim, Jennifer Honek, Yihai Cao

6. Lymphatic System in Adipose Tissues
Bernhard Nausch, Sonia Rehal, Pierre-Yves Weid

7. Origin of Adipocyte Precursors from Adipose Vascular Endothelium
Andrea Frontini, Silvia Corvera, Saverio Cinti

8. Vascular and Endothelial Regeneration
Louis Casteilla, Patrick Laharrague, V. Planat-Benard

Part IV. Angiogenic Factors and Adipokines in Adipose Tissue

9. Role of NPY in Brown Adipocytes and Obesity
Sheng Bi

10. Leptin, Adiponectin, and Other Adipokines in Regulation of Adipose Tissue Angiogenesis
Ebba Brakenhielm, Yihai Cao

Part V. Regulation of Adipose Angiogenesis by Inflammatory Cells

11. Immune Cells in Adipose Tissue: Key Players in Metabolic Disorders
Fanny Volat, Anne Bouloumié

12. Adipose Tissue Hypoxia in Regulation of Angiogenesis and Obesity
Zoi Michailidou, Jonathan R. Seckl

Part VI. Mouse Models to Study Adipose Angiogenesis

13. Adipose Angiogenesis Models in Animals and Methodology
Jennifer Honek, Sharon Lim, Yihai Cao

14. Mouse Genetic Models in Studying Adipose Angiogenesis
Ilse Scroyen, H. Roger Lijnen

Part VII. Adipose Tissue Facilitates Tumor Angiogenesis and Growth

15. Adipose Tissue-Derived Progenitor Cells and Cancer
Chieh Tseng, Mikhail G. Kolonin

16. Adipose-Derived Endothelial Precursor Cells Supporting Tumor Growth
Patrizia Mancuso, Ines Martin-Padura, Francesco Bertolini

Part VIII. Engineering of Vascularized Adipose Tissue

17. Successful Angiogenesis as Key to Engineered Adipose Tissue
Paul Severin Wiggenhauser, Jan-Thorsten Schantz

Nyckelord: Biomedicine, Cancer Research, Lipidology, Cell Biology