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  2. Adipose tissue - Wikipedia

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    Adipose tissue (also known as body fat or simply fat) is a loose connective tissue composed mostly of adipocytes. [1] [2] It also contains the stromal vascular fraction (SVF) of cells including preadipocytes, fibroblasts, vascular endothelial cells and a variety of immune cells such as adipose tissue macrophages.

  3. Adipocyte - Wikipedia

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    The marrow adipose tissue depot is poorly understood in terms of its physiologic function and relevance to bone health. Marrow adipose tissue expands in states of low bone density but additionally expands in the setting of obesity. [4] Marrow adipose tissue response to exercise approximates that of white adipose tissue.

  4. White adipose tissue - Wikipedia

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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 is composed of monolocular adipocytes. In humans, the healthy amount of white adipose tissue varies with age, but composes between 6–25% of body weight in adult men and 14–35% in adult women.

  5. Pathophysiology of obesity - Wikipedia

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    Abdominal obesity, excess fat cell accumulation in adipose tissue of the abdomen, is associated more strongly with meta-inflammation. [9] Evolutionarily, adipose tissue has been shown to function as an immune organ. [8] The immune cells located in adipose tissue are important for maintaining metabolic homeostasis.

  6. Fat - Wikipedia

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    The obese mouse on the left has large stores of adipose tissue. For comparison, a mouse with a normal amount of adipose tissue is shown on the right. In animals, adipose tissue, or fatty tissue is the body's means of storing metabolic energy over extended periods of time. Adipocytes (fat cells) store fat derived from the diet and from liver ...

  7. Android fat distribution - Wikipedia

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    Insulin responsiveness is dependent on adipose cell size. The larger the adipose cell size the less sensitive the insulin. Diabetes is more likely to occur in obese women with android fat distribution and hypertrophic fat cells. [9] It is not just general obesity that is a consequence of android fat distribution but also other health consequences.

  8. Fatty acid-binding protein - Wikipedia

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    It has recently been suggested that macrophage accumulation in adipose tissue is a feature of adipose tissue inflammatory responses triggered by obesity and hence may contribute to the metabolic consequences such as insulin resistance. [12] In diabetes, FABPs may influence insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism.

  9. Lipogenesis - Wikipedia

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    Through the promotion of fatty acid oxidation and lipogenesis inhibition, leptin was found to control the release of stored glucose from adipose tissues. [1] Other hormones that prevent the stimulation of lipogenesis in adipose cells are growth hormones (GH). Growth hormones result in loss of fat but stimulates muscle gain. [11]