Adipose tissue, or fat, is an anatomical term for loose connective tissue composed of adipocytes. Its main role is to store energy in the form of fat, although it also cushions and insulates the body.

In medically indicated weight loss, attention is typically focused on the associated health benefits. However, recent ...

Adipose tissue, when carried around in excessive amounts, predisposes to a large number of diseases. Epidemiological data show that the prevalence of obesity has significantly increased over the ...

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center scientists found that activating fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) ...

Adipose tissue can expand in two ways: by increasing the size and/or the number of the fat cells. It is well established that subjects with few but large fat cells, so-called hypertrophy, display ...

To examine the in vivo effects of bioprinted adipose tissues, the authors prepared a tissue assembly comprising adipose and dermis modules.This tissue assembly was implanted into mice with skin wounds ...

Obesity plays a crucial role in how severely blood vessels are damaged—and this depends on where excessive fat accumulates in ...

Adipose tissue’s tendency to store things is an unfortunate side-effect, because often we need those things to be circulating, not sitting around. Take hormones, for instance.

Several studies published in 2016 have identified dermal white adipose tissue (dWAT) as a new adipose depot and highlight the existence of mechanistic links between cutaneous adipogenesis and ...