Obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide, posing a significant burden on people’s health and on healthcare systems. It is a major risk factor for ...

Results reveal that weight loss has significant effects on cellular processes that are known to affect metabolic health and ...

He goes on to explain that in people with adipose tissue dysfunction, this can lead to damaged tissue, fibrosis, secretion of proinflammatory and adipogenic molecules that subsequently contribute ...

A nnouncing a new publication for Acta Materia Medica journal. Aging impairs adipose tissue function and contributes to metabolic disorders, such as obesity and insulin resistance. Chronic ...

Nearly half of patients had obesity — defined as BMI of 30 kg/m 2 to 61 kg/m 2 — and BMI correlated highly with subcutaneous adipose tissue (r = 0.84) and intermuscular adipose tissue (r = 0. ...

Background Adipose tissue-derived stem cells (ADSCs), a type of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), have great potential as therapeutic agents in regenerative medicine. Numerous animal studies have ...

The mammalian immune system is an evolutionary wonder. It's capable of recognizing and destroying cancer cells, and it can deploy armies of antibodies against viruses, bacteria, parasites and fungi.

The process thus goes from maintaining normal adipose tissue function during weight gain, to becoming pathogenic in some cases. When samples of human macrophages were exposed to diabetes-like ...

Previous research has suggested associations between mitochondrial dysfunction, reduced energy expenditure and insulin ... The findings demonstrate that chronic activation of RalA plays a key role in ...

Women with higher levels of visceral adipose tissue are more likely to develop preeclampsia than those with less fat, according to findings from a Mendelian randomization published in The Journal ...

PVAT in the resistance arteries that regulate the pressure and flow of blood is characterized as white adipose tissue or WAT. In patients with obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, it’s common to ...