adipose
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Unlike white adipose tissue, which primarily stores fat and tends to accumulate in obesity, brown fat specializes in using energy and 'burning' calories from food.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
In the mouse tests, the researchers injected the liver cells and microspheres into fatty tissue called the perigonadal adipose tissue.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Additional biochemical testing showed that visceral white adipose tissue was a major source of the age-related increase in C3.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
One possibility is to protect adipose tissue before it deteriorates, preventing fat cells from disappearing and reducing the metabolic damage caused by the disease.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
It was rather like the adipose fin of a fish, but gaudy.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
