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    Brown adipose tissue (BAT) or brown fat makes up the adipose organ together with white adipose tissue (or white fat). Brown adipose tissue is found in...
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    adipose tissue (WAT), which stores energy, and brown adipose tissue (BAT), which generates body heat. Adipose tissue—more specifically brown adipose tissue—was...
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    adipose tissue or white fat is one of the two types of adipose tissue found in mammals. The other kind is brown adipose tissue. White adipose tissue is...
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    Adipocyte (redirect from Adipose cell)
    are two types of adipose tissue, white adipose tissue (WAT) and brown adipose tissue (BAT), which are also known as white and brown fat, respectively...
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  • within the tissue. When glucose is deficient, in situations like fasting, white adipose tissue generates glycerol 3-phosphate. Brown adipose tissue stores...
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    Bone marrow adipose tissue (BMAT), sometimes referred to as marrow adipose tissue (MAT), is a type of fat deposit in bone marrow. It increases in states...
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  • in brown adipose tissue (brown fat) that is present in almost all eutherians (swine being the only exception currently known). Brown adipose tissue has...
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  • on mammalian thermogenesis, primarily focusing on the function of brown adipose tissue. She is the recipient of the 2014 King's Medal from the Order of...
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    around elucidating the function and physiological importance of brown adipose tissue, as well as the importance of thermoneutrality in translating mouse...
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    protein 1, or UCP1) is a mitochondrial carrier protein found in brown adipose tissue (BAT). It is used to generate heat by non-shivering thermogenesis...
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    brown adipose tissue as a mechanism to accelerate rewarming. The mechanism of marsupial arousal is unknown, but appears not to rely on brown adipose tissue...
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  • Adipose tissue macrophages (ATMs) comprise resident macrophages present in adipose tissue. Besides adipocytes, adipose tissue contains the stromal vascular...
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    function. Many studies support that the orexin neurons regulate brown adipose tissue (BAT) activity via the sympathetic nervous system to enhance energy...
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    dilator. In the heart, an increase in the amount of blood pumped. In brown adipose tissue, an increase in calories burned to generate body heat (thermogenesis)...
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  • Baby fat may refer to: Brown adipose tissue, a heat-generating type of tissue present in infants The fat roll on babies during the initial child development...
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    development of brown adipocytes in brown adipose tissue. Previously, this coregulator was believed to be present only in brown adipose tissue, but more recent...
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    gene based on RT-PCR experiments on tissue extracts, however, it has now been found in white and brown adipose tissue, as well as in certain types of cancer...
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    is primarily found in brown adipose tissue, or brown fat, and is responsible for non-shivering thermogenesis. Brown adipose tissue is found in mammals,...
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    until high GPD1 and GPD2 activity were demonstrated in mammalian brown adipose tissue and pancreatic ß-islets. In this shuttle, the enzyme called cytoplasmic...
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  • cost of processing food for use and storage. Heat production by brown adipose tissue which is activated after consumption of a meal is an additional component...
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    is highly expressed in white adipose tissue, with lower expression in heart, skeletal muscle, and brown adipose tissue. PLIN4 coats lipid droplets in...
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    owing to decreased UCP-1 expression in brown adipose tissue and reduced thermogenic capacity. Brown adipose tissue (BAT), in contrast to bona fide white...
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    and promote emergence of beige adipocytes in white adipose tissue. Beige and brown adipose tissue are specialized in thermogenesis. The process of beiging...
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    as shivering, and uncoupled oxidative metabolism, such as within brown adipose tissue. Only birds and mammals are extant universally endothermic groups...
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  • protein, thermogenin—present in the inner mitochondrial membrane of brown adipose tissue—provides for an alternative flow of protons back to the inner mitochondrial...
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    consists of loose connective tissue (including reticular connective tissue and adipose tissue) and dense connective tissue (subdivided into dense regular...
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  • beta-2 adrenergic receptors. Beta-3 adrenergic agonists activate brown adipose tissue (BAT) and increase energy expenditure, leading to research interest...
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    independent of solar radiation and environmental factors. Unique type of brown adipose tissue, allowing mammals to generate heat quickly. Mitochondria with respiration...
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  • lymphoid organs (lymph node stromal cells, red bone marrow, and spleen). Adipose tissue is held together by reticular fibers. They can be identified in histology...
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  • liver gluconeogenesis, sodium reabsorption, osmoregulation, and brown adipose tissue nonshivering thermogenesis. This regulation occurs through the sympathetic...
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