Working in
mice that were put on high - fat diets to
model diabetes, «we demonstrated that obesity increases the expression
of pro-inflammatory genes in abdominal fat, but not in
other organs such as the liver or muscle, nor in subcutaneous fat,» says Jongsoon Lee, PhD, Assistant Investigator in Joslin's Section on Pathophysiology and Molecular Pharmacology and Assistant Professor
of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.