“When things affect fat, it affects our entire body.” Body fat, or adipose tissue, is a complex organ. It contains fat cells, nerves, immune cells, and connective tissue. Its main job is to ...

It is sometimes called “good” fat. Brown adipose tissue, also known as brown fat, is one of two types of fat that humans and other mammals have. The other type of fat is white or yellow fat.

In rodents and newborn humans, brown adipose tissue helps regulate energy expenditure by thermogenesis mediated by the expression of uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1), but brown adipose tissue has been ...

Studies in animals indicate that brown adipose tissue is important in the regulation of body weight, and it is possible that individual variation in adaptive thermogenesis can be attributed to ...

The study found that microplastic particles (MPs) not only induce senescence in white adipose tissue but also significantly impair adipogenesis, reducing lipid droplet formation in both white and ...