People tend to think of them as a healthy alternative to crisps and sweets, but they can be just as dangerous for your weight ...

Prenatal DHA supplementation increases infant total and central fat mass at 24 months, independent of gestational weight gain ...

Fruit-based snacks often come across as the healthier option but in reality could be undermining your weight loss efforts, ...

Microscopy image depicting fat cells (or adipocytes) after differentiation. The cells are stained with Oil Red O, which highlights lipid or fat droplets that accumulate with the fat cells.

Under cold circumstances, glucose uptake is elevated in brown and beige adipocytes, and glucose functions as the energy ...

CellGenTech, headquartered in Chiba, Japan, is pioneering the use of a new cell type—adipocytes suitable for gene therapy—for ex vivo applications in a range of diseases caused by single-gene ...

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or that. Or even this. But certainly not that. Fat is stored in special cells called adipocytes that swell when you feed them more calories than you use. They're located all over the body ...

In a recent study published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, a team of researchers in China used an in vitro co-culture ...

Insulin has a key role in stimulating both the storage (conversion of free fatty acids from the circulation into ...

Notably, heavy alcohol intake is a well-established risk factor for liver and colorectal cancers, with evidence of a ...

Long-term caloric excess causes hypertrophy and ER stress in white adipocytes, leading to the release of adipokines and chemoattractants that help activate and/or recruit innate cells, such as ...