Adipose tissue has been ignored by anatomists and physicians for centuries, considered to be an energy storage depot with few interesting attributes. The well-documented rise in obesity during the ...

Researchers led by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), report a new approach that deprived tumors of nutrition in cancer models, and may one day lead to a new approach that can be ...

Adipose tissue is an underappreciated and misunderstood organ. Capable of more than doubling in mass and then returning to baseline, 1 white adipose tissue (WAT) continues to play an essential role in ...

WAT and BAT function antagonistically–WAT stores energy and BAT releases energy. The balance between these two cell types changes over an organisms' lifetime. The major microscopic constituent of ...

Adipose tissue is connective tissue primarily comprised of white and brown adipocytes (fat cells). Though previously thought of as an inert tissue, adipocytes have been shown to play varied roles not ...

Comme le disait plaisamment mon maître Raymond Vilain à l'hôpital Boucicaut à Paris dans les années 1980, l’adipocyte, ou cellule graisseuse primordiale, devient le roi des médias dès l'été venu ! Ils ...

The drug candidate aims to reduce fat and is being developed for use alongside existing GLP-1 receptor agonist therapies.