How to Use adipose tissue in a Sentence

adipose tissue

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Definition of adipose tissuenext
  • The body has two main types of adipose tissue or fat — white and brown.
    — Kelly Dinardo, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Some gets stored in the liver as a reserve tank, and any excess is stored as fat, both in the liver and in adipose tissue around your body.
    — Amy Marturana, SELF, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Grains of Paradise - Part of the ginger family that revs up brown adipose tissue.
    — Mark Anderson, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Can slimming pills reduce adipose tissue to lose weight?
    — Dallas News, 20 May 2022
  • The largest system, the integumentary and adipose tissues, consists mainly of skin and fat.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Brown adipose tissue supports weight loss better than white fat.
    — Dallas News, 18 July 2022
  • The Arctic ground squirrel does it by tapping thick stores of brown adipose tissue, a kind of fat and muscle common in human infants.
    — Gregory Mone, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2013
  • The physician makes a number of passes with the instrument and creates a number of pencil-sized tunnels through the adipose tissue.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2018
  • Fat is made of adipose tissue while muscles are composed of different types of protein.
    — Philly.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • In a healthy body, adipose tissue plays a positive role, serving as reservoir of energy in times of food scarcity.
    — Tammy Worth, Scientific American, 24 June 2021
  • The team took biopsies of adipose tissue at the end of each study phase, measured changes to its gene activity, and checked to see which, if any, might be correlated with weight regain.
    — Daniel Engber, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Weight Changes Estrogen is produced mainly from adipose tissue (the tissue that makes up fat) after menopause.
    — Kiera Aaron, Health, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Most of this weight loss will come from adipose tissue (otherwise known as body fat), but some of it may also come from lean mass (otherwise known as muscle tissue).
    — Lauren Bedosky, SELF, 19 Jan. 2022
  • There’s also fat loss and, the great news is, a large percentage of that is abdominal fat, harmful adipose tissue linked to serious health issues.
    — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2022
  • In fact, adipose tissue, or fat tissue, produces excess amounts of estrogen.
    — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 13 June 2024
  • This seems to be true for abdominal adipose tissue, the most common subject of obesity studies.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Researchers collected samples of adipose tissue or fat tissue to see how the two groups stored fat, a process known as adipogenesis.
    — Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Stimulating these neurons prods them to send signals to brown adipose tissue, a highly metabolic fat located on the upper back that is tasked with turning up body heat when things get too chilled.
    — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 5 June 2023
  • Trimtone contains grains of paradise, a plant that activates brown adipose tissue in your body, speeding up fat loss and keeping your energy levels stable.
    — Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The other, which takes far longer, is generating heat through a chemical reaction when the body’s brown fat cells—brown adipose tissue (BAP)—breaks down blood sugar and fat molecules to generate heat.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
  • This prevents excess fat from turning into adipose tissue.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Obesity and cancer risk Excess calorie consumption can lead to weight gain and the accumulation of adipose tissue (body fat).
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg Fox News, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Both groups experienced decreases in epicardial adipose tissue (one of two kinds of fat deposits surrounding the heart).
    — Pam Moore, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020
  • That's because research is showing that a protruding tummy may be a sign of what is called visceral adipose tissue, or VAT -- a dangerous form of fat that wraps itself around organs deep inside your body.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 Apr. 2021
  • For this issue’s special report, Ford depicted both healthy and unhealthy adipose tissue in a feature on being heavy and healthy by journalist Christie Aschwanden.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • This futuristic device utilizes a 1064 nm laser that is proven to induce apoptosis (which is essentially the death of unwanted cells) in adipose tissue, also known as body fat.
    — Meggen Harris, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • Through suction methods, this procedure removes excess fat tissue (also known as lipid or adipose tissue) underneath the skin.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Grains of paradise: Brown adipose tissue (BAT) raises your body temperature and regulates blood sugar levels.
    — Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The grains activate brown adipose tissue, lowering blood sugar levels and producing heat that speeds up your metabolism.
    — Norcal Marketing, Chron, 4 Feb. 2021
  • This produced inflammation in the adipose tissue, which in turn led to insulin resistance, obesity and related diseases.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Sep. 2017

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