Adipocytes - The scientific term for Fat Cells, being various types of specialized cells found in adipose tissue used for fat storage. One could perhaps say this it is a rather obese term for Fat Cells. ;-) ...
Adipocytes - Fat Cells. A fancy term used by scientists rather than using plain english. Has twice as many syllables as fat cells.
The number of fat cells - adipocytes - a person has.
The amount of fat inside the adipocytes.
Current evidence suggests that the original number of fat cells in any area of the body is controlled by one's original genetic make up.
In the laboratory, exposure to resveratrol prevented pre-fat cells, termed pre-adipocytes, from increasing and from converting into mature fat cells, according to Martin Wabitsch, MD, PhD, a researcher from the University of Ulm in Ulm, Germany.
Fatty acids come from the diet, adipocytes (fat cells), carbohydrate, and some amino acids. After digestion, most of the fats are carried in the blood as chylomicrons.
We have adipose tissue all over the body. This tissue is made of adipocytes (fat cells) whose sole job is to store energy in the form of fat. Body fat distribution differs from person to person. There are generally two types of fat storage: ...
It's a superficial layer of fat underneath the skin that is affected by the size of fat cells (adipocytes), made worse by water retention (bad blood and lymphatic circulation) and fibrosis (change in collagen fibre).
The trans-10,cis-12 CLA isomer has also been reported to inhibit proliferation and differentiation in cultured mouse adipocytes (Brodie et al., 1999) and to induce apoptosis in vivo in the adipose tissue of mice (Tsuboyama-Kasaoka et al., 2000).
Sirt1 promotes fat mobilization in white adipocytes by repressing PPAR-gamma. Nature. 2004 Jun 17;429(6993):771-6. PMID 15175761. Letter in Nature ...
 See also: Fat, Health, Diet, Eating, Overweight
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