A push to renew research into an understudied gut organ is gaining momentum. The organ in question? The omentum. It’s a curtain of fatty tissue that hangs down from our stomach and liver and wraps ...

The omentum's immune functions come from groups of small, white filters located among the fat cells. Anatomists first discovered these cell clusters in rabbits around 1874, giving them the name ...

Troy Randall, an immunologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the omentum guy. He thinks the “apron of fat” that hugs your abdomen doesn’t get enough attention — while we ...

Having my omentum removed after an ovarian cancer diagnosis impacted my quality of life. In 2016, 15 months after my cancer diagnosis, and nine months after completing chemo, I went on my first work ...

Some of it is actually part of an organ called the omentum. And the omentum — specifically, its immune cells — may be where researchers need to focus if they want to find new treatments for ...

You may not love your belly fat, but one large sheet of fat that stretches across your abdomen serves an important purpose: This fat, called the omentum, plays a role in the immune system ...

I wanted a tummy tuck, but the doctor said no because the fat is in the omentum, which can't be sucked out. How do I reduce omental fat? Answer: You're already on your way to paring down your ...

Visceral fat is what we call omental fat -- that is, fat in your omentum, a piece of webbing that hangs off your stomach just beneath your ab muscles, sort of like a mesh apron. 2. The fat you don ...