Sentences with phrase «by fat tissue»

In this case, normal thyroid tissue is replaced by fat tissue in what is considered a degenerative disease.

Abdominal fat, in particular, contains proinflammatory cytokines — the chemicals released by immune cells — and hormones secreted by fat tissue, which can generate and perpetuate chronic inflammation.

Adiponectin — This is a hormone secreted solely by fat tissue (and the placenta during pregnancy).

Insulin also increases the production of testosterone, which is then converted into even more estrogen by fat tissue in the belly.»

Similar to exercise, green tea significantly reduces glucose uptake by fat tissue, and significantly stimulates glucose uptake in muscle [3].

So if there is too much fat accumulating in the fat tissue, that's because the various factors in your body, the hormones, the enzymes, the central nervous system that regulate the uptake of fat by the fat tissue, and the release of fat are telling the fat to be taken up, and we got to figure what that is.»

It all starts with leptin, a protein produced by fat tissue that helps regulate body weight and fat mass by impacting appetite and the body's energy balance.

One of those cytokines is leptin, a satiety hormone secreted by fat tissue, which women tend to have more of than men.

Another fat - burning hormone, adiponectin, is also released by fat tissue during high - exertion muscle contractions.

Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Rockefeller University have discovered a new hormone produced by fat tissue and presumably acting on the brain to regulate weight.

Among the suspected reasons: chronic low - level inflammation, too much insulin, excess hormones and growth factors released by fat tissue, and metabolic abnormalities.

The study found that people with higher BMI levels also had higher levels of leptin, a hormone made by fat tissue that regulates weight, appetite and immune response.

While pseudogynecomastia is caused by fat tissues accumulating in the chest area, gynecomastia is caused by the development of breast tissue.

Not exact matches

According to research by the International Journal of Obesity, a cold body's thermoreceptors activate Brown adipose tissue (BAT), known as «good fat,» which in turn burns white fat, «bad fat,» to produce heat.

Clean each liver by removing any connective tissue, fat and soft parts, leaving firm pieces of liver.

The hormone leptin is made by the body's fat tissue.

Around the sixth month after you wean your baby, the excess tissue in your breasts will become replaced by fat that is firmer than milk.

It seems to have a superior nutritional profile to regular beef because fat is replaced by «lean» cartilage and other connective tissue.

A higher body fat percentage and a higher concentration of leptin, a hormone secreted by adipose tissue, were inversely associated with reading skills in boys.

Some preliminary studies have shown that the chemical can persist in human fat tissue and trigger a drop in adiponectin, a hormone excreted by fat that helps control sugar levels in the blood.

«This suggests substantial nonfood exposure, accumulation in body tissues such as fat, or both,» the researchers wrote in their paper released today by Environmental Health Perspectives.

Previous studies have found that brown fat can be coaxed into action by activating the β3 - adrenergic receptor, which is expressed on the surfaces of brown and white fat cells, as well as on cells of the urinary bladder and other tissues.

The researchers evaluated the mechanisms by which the tissue obtains energy by burning sugars and fats by the intervention of oxygen during exercise, on the knee extensors of one leg in 11 active men.

In particular, people who lived within 60 meters of a major road had a higher BMI, by 0.37 kg / m2, and more fat tissue than those who lived 440 meters from a busy road.

In mice, this form of lipodystrophy was also characterized by «whitening» of brown fat cells, a loss of white fat, and signs of metabolic syndrome, including insulin resistance, fat tissue inflammation, dyslipidemia (elevated cholesterol and fat), increased resting energy use, and increased markers of cardiovascular disease.

The study, Lysyl oxidase and adipose tissue dysfunction, found that this molecule is more prevalent in fat tissue of obese people and that it was increased by inflammation and oxygen deprivation.

The inflammation spills over from fat tissue into the blood stream and is eventually measurable in the circulation by a blood test.

The Arctic ground squirrel does it by tapping thick stores of brown adipose tissue, a kind of fat and muscle common in human infants.

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Past research by Olefsky and others has shown that obesity is characterized by low - grade inflammation in adipose or fat tissues and that this inflammatory state can become chronic and result in systemic insulin resistance and diabetes.

Patients with Type I diabetes lack insulin, which is normally produced by the pancreas and regulates metabolism by stimulating muscle and fat tissue to absorb glucose from the bloodstream.

This observation implies that visceral fat causes insulin resistance by changing the output of molecules made by a wide range of fat tissues.

While researching the molecular causes of heart failure and new ways to treat it, a Charité - based working group, led by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kintscher, found that changes in adipose (fat) tissue lipid metabolism affect disease development.

• Works by freezing the lipids in fat cells, which then slowly dissolve without injuring surrounding tissues.

We can see the spinal cord protected by a vertebra, the kidneys, the aorta, sections through various parts of the winding intestines, as well as the muscles, fat and connective tissue that holds it all together.

Cellulite describes dimpling of skin, caused by the protrusion of subcutaneous fat into the dermis creating an undulating dermal - subcutaneous fat junction adipose tissue.

In 2013, a team led by Gradinaru together with Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University in California reported a method that strips away fats and other molecules to make intact brain tissue transparent, allowing thick sections to be imaged with a light microscope (see «See - through brains clarify connections»).

Mammograms often can't detect dense tissue in obese women because it is hidden by fat cells, Fischbach says.

A new genetic analysis reveals that our brawny cousins had a number of distinct genes involved in the buildup of certain types of fat in their brains and other tissues — a trait shared by today's Europeans, but not Asians.

«Further experimentation will be needed to evaluate the involvement of irisin and other factors increased by exercise and expressed by bone, muscle and fat tissue.»

The presence of SNRK in fat tissue was first discovered by co-corresponding author Haiyan Xu while she was a researcher in the Molecular Epidemiology and Nutrition Lab of Brown's Center for Global Cardiometabolic Health.

Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and University College Dublin (UCD) have found that augmenting a naturally occurring molecule in the body can help protect against obesity - related diseases by reducing inflammation in the fat tissues.

Now, a study led by Brown University researchers has identified an enzyme that appears the regulate the physiology of both fat types in mice — decreasing inflammation in white fat tissue, while promoting the ability of brown fat to burn calories.

Furthermore, clipping or genetically ablating wings from flies prevented the protective effects of DR on lifespan, demonstrating a critical role for the observed increase in physical activity in determining lifespan upon DR. To further elucidate the mechanisms by which changes in DR mediates changes in metabolism we are identifying and characterizing various tissue specific modulators of fat metabolsm

The results showed significant disease improvement, primarily by affecting fat tissue.

The heat is produced by brown adipose tissue, or brown fat, which also plays a role in how the body uses glucose and fat.

«We mapped the metabolic changes caused by accumulated fat in liver cells, and combined this data with an analysis of biological networks of liver and other human tissues.

f. Quantifying the long lived proteins, fats, sugars, etc that increase with aging by comparing 1 years old rats to 2 year old rats tissue, taking the difference and seeing which can be processed with normal genes being re-regulation and which we can not degrade.

Moreover, recent data also show that in response to brain damage caused by aging, amyloid deposition, demyelination, and other insults, microglial cells activate several genes, including APOE, in order to more efficiently scavenge and clear tissue debris that are very rich in cholesterol due to the natural composition of the brain, which is mostly made of fats.

Cell therapy has been shown to be effective in reducing the infarct (scarring) caused by a heart attack as well as improving heart function when certain cell types are used — particularly cells from a person's own fat (adipose tissue).