Tribune News NetworkDohaSidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, has contributed to a major international research study published in Nature Metabolism, titled ‘Towards a consensus atlas of human ...

Adipose tissue expansion can occur via hypertrophy (increased adipocyte size) or via hyperplasia (increased adipocyte number), with the former being metabolically detrimental. 4 This metabolic ...

Obesity plays a crucial role in how severely blood vessels are damaged—and this depends on where excessive fat accumulates in ...

In the lean, healthy state, adipose tissue (AT) has critical roles in maintaining organismal homeostasis. Paramount among the various roles of AT is the regulation of whole body metabolism. While ...

Growing evidence suggests a critical role for overnutrition in the development of low-grade inflammation. Specifically, chronic inflammation in adipose tissue is considered a crucial risk factor for ...

Expansion of adipose tissue has been linked to altered secretion of adipokines, inflammation and apoptosis. The hypertrophy of adipocytes and androgen excess in PCOS lead to chronic low-grade ...

The ability to detect and characterize microscopic structural changes in tissue opens new possibilities for early cancer detection to improve patient outcomes. In particular, THz polarimetric ...