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    adipose tissue are white adipose tissue (WAT), which stores energy, and brown adipose tissue (BAT), which generates body heat. Adipose tissue—more specifically...
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    White 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...
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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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    Adipocyte (redirect from Adipose cell)
    There 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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  • lipid distribution. White adipose tissue, also known as white fat, is one two types of adipose tissue in mammals. White adipose tissue stores energy in the...
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  • brown adipose tissue (brown fat) that is present in almost all eutherians (swine being the only exception currently known). Brown adipose tissue has a...
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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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  • Adipose tissue macrophages (ATMs) comprise resident macrophages present in adipose tissue. Besides adipocytes, adipose tissue contains the stromal vascular...
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    specialized tissues and cells are classified under the spectrum of connective tissue, and are as diverse as brown and white adipose tissue, blood, cartilage...
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    The adipose tissue expandability hypothesis posits that metabolic dysregulation that appears to be caused by excess weight, such as type 2 diabetes and...
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    also by other tissues such as skin, lung and kidney. In addition, the haptoglobin gene is expressed in murine and human adipose tissue. Haptoglobin had...
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    composed of several adipose depots including mesenteric, epididymal white adipose tissue (EWAT), and perirenal fat. An excess of adipose visceral fat is known...
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  • ANXA2 and prohibitin, that are specific to blood vessels supplying white adipose tissue. As of 2019, clinical development has been discontinued. "Prohibitin-targeting...
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    gene. First discovered in 2005, Serpin A12 was highly expressed in white adipose tissue of Otsuka Long Evans Tokushima Fatty Rats at the same time that the...
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  • in the extracellular matrix of white adipose tissue. Lack of ColVI in the extracellular matrix of white adipose tissue leads to molecular characteristic...
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    distributed in adipose, heart, and skeletal muscle tissue, as well as in lactating mammary glands. In brief, LPL is secreted from heart, muscle and adipose parenchymal...
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    It is highly expressed in white adipose tissue, with lower expression in heart, skeletal muscle, and brown adipose tissue. PLIN4 coats lipid droplets...
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    UCP1 and promote emergence of beige adipocytes in white adipose tissue. Beige and brown adipose tissue are specialized in thermogenesis. The process of...
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    brown adipocytes in brown adipose tissue. Previously, this coregulator was believed to be present only in brown adipose tissue, but more recent studies...
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    protein, is a protein hormone predominantly made by adipocytes (cells of adipose tissue). Its primary role is likely to regulate long-term energy balance. As...
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    organogenesis of white adipose tissue (WAT) can be simulated from primary cells. Adipocyte-depleted stromal vascular fraction (SVF) containing adipose stromal...
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    FNDC5 (section Tissues)
    of white adipose tissue (WAT) to brown adipose tissue (BAT) by increasing UCP1 expression. A 2016 in vitro study of white and brown fat cell tissue found...
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    J.; Tataruch, F.; Dausmann, K.; Ganzhorn, J. (February 2003). "White adipose tissue composition in the free-ranging fat-tailed dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus...
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    produces a hormone, called leptin, that is produced predominantly in adipose tissue. One role of leptin is to regulate appetite by signalling to the brain...
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    insulin, there is an increased expression of the ATGL protein. Because adipose tissue triglyceride is a major form of energy storage, the study of how ATGL...
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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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  • Asprosin is a protein hormone produced by mammals in (white adipose) tissues that stimulates the liver to release glucose into the blood stream. Asprosin...
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  • white adipose tissue cells via undetermined receptors. Irisin has been reported to promote a brown adipose tissue-like phenotype upon white adipose tissue...
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    to be specific, adipose tissue.[citation needed] Two types of adipose tissue exist: white adipose tissue (WAT) and brown adipose tissue (BAT). The formation...
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    body in balance. The levels of glucose in the blood are monitored by many tissues, but the cells in the pancreatic islets are among the most well understood...
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