Sentences with phrase «energy storage organ»

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Once considered an inert storage depot for excess energy, adipose tissue has been clearly identified as playing an influential role in cardiometabolic health.3 Adipose tissue functions not only as an important buffer for fatty acids90 but also as a highly active secretory organ, capable of influencing whole - body physiology through the production of an array of bioactive adipokines.

Fat is essential to bodily functions, it regulates the temperature, insulates and cushions tissues and organs, resulting into the main sort of energy storage for our body.

Fat is necessary for the production and storage of energy, supporting cell growth and regeneration, protecting and insulating organs, producing hormones, and starting the chemical reactions that control growth, reproduction, basic metabolism, and immune function.

The dominant (> 50 % fat energy) fatty acids in the fat storage depots (adipocytes) of wild mammals are saturated fatty acids (SFAs), whereas the dominant fatty acids in muscle and all other organ tissues are polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs)(11).