... Homeostasis Inflammation Microbiome Mucosa The human body is inhabited by a highly diverse population of microorganisms (microbiota) that has co-evolved with their human hosts over many millennia [ 1 ]. The human microbiome, a term more precisely used to describe the genomes of these microorganisms...

..., fibrosis, and insulin resistance. This review focuses on recent advances in our understanding of the identity of ASCs and their roles in adipose tissue development, homeostasis, expansion, and thermogenesis, and how these roles go awry in obesity. A better understanding of the biology of ASCs...