Researchers have mapped human fat tissue at single-cell resolution, uncovering how obesity alters cellular stress, ...

In a recent study by Miller et al., 5 the role of lymphatic drainage in the removal of macromolecules from adipose tissue in lean subjects was investigated. Interestingly, the larger the molecular ...

Pennington Biomedical researchers have contributed to a study highlighting the crucial role of cysteine in regulating ...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is strongly associated with abdominal obesity. Growing evidence suggests that inflammation in specific depots of white adipose tissue (WAT) has a key role ...

In medically indicated weight loss, attention is typically focused on the associated health benefits. However, recent research findings suggest that recovery from obesity-induced systemic inflammation ...

Consuming fewer calories is largely accepted as a way to improve health and lose weight, but a recently published study in ...

Active brown adipose tissue helps maintain normal body temperature in newborn infants. It is believed that this tissue regresses with increasing age and is completely lost by the time a person ...

Although several early anatomical studies suggested that brown adipose tissue is present in adult humans, 7–9 its physiologic relevance was believed to be marginal for most. 9,10 In the past few ...

John Crandall, Tyler J Fraum, Richard L. Wahl. Brown adipose tissue: a protective mechanism in “pre-prediabetes”? Journal of Nuclear Medicine , 2022; jnumed.121.263357 DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.121. ...