Although obese individuals are at greater risk of diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, not all obese people ...

Body weight and body mass index alone are not enough to predict whether someone will develop a metabolic disease. A new atlas of cells in fat tissue could help to explain why some overweight people ...

deep belly fat known as visceral adipose tissue (VAT) also has a good side: it’s a critical component of the body’s immune system. VAT is home to many cells of both the innate and adaptive immune ...

Adipose tissue immunity is modulated by the interactions between adipocytes and various immune cells. Nevertheless, the underlying mechanisms that control inter-cellular interactions between ...

And that is paradigm shifting.” While LCs looked like adipocytes, whole-tissue lipidomics performed on ear lipo-cartilage and groin adipose tissue revealed that the composition of the different fats ...

While white adipose tissue (WAT) stores excess energy ... that enhance UCP1 expression and mitochondrial activity in adipocytes. This finding reveals a novel signaling mechanism that operates ...

In obese adipose tissue, an increase in pro-inflammatory M1 ATMs forms a crown-like structure (CLS) surrounding dead adipocytes. Recent research has uncovered new macrophage subtypes, particularly in ...

However, adipose tissue, or body fat ... which can develop into a variety of cell types including adipocytes (fat cells). This dynamic transition between cellular states may be a key mechanism ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of tissue, a soft and flexible ‘fatty cartilage’ that could revolutionize the ...