adipose

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Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have developed a promising new method to repair spinal fractures using stem cells extracted from adipose tissue, or body fat.

From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025

In fact, says Coviello, under certain still unknown conditions or at a still-to-be-determined point, healthy adipose tissue acquires pathological qualities.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2025

Unlike carbohydrates, which are stored in muscle and liver as glycogen, and fats, which are stored in adipose tissue, we have nowhere to store excess protein/amino acids.

From Salon • Sep. 18, 2024

The researchers found that as mice age and neurons in the hypothalamus become less active, sympathetic nerves pull back from white adipose tissue.

From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024

It was rather like the adipose fin of a fish, but gaudy.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White