Sentences with word «omental»

To assemble their model, the researchers collected non-cancerous omental tissue from patients undergoing abdominal surgery.

Instead of growing cancer cells on plastic, they inserted a multi-layered omental tissue culture model into each well of a 384 - well or 1536 - well HTS platform.

In the laboratory, they isolated and cultured mesothelial cells and fibroblasts, two of the predominant cell types found in omental tissue.

They also block enzymes involved in breaking down fat for energy, and thus can contribute to weight gain — especially the most inflammatory type of weight gain — around the waist, called omental fat.

This is also in agreement with previous studies showing that leptin production is higher in subcutaneous adipocytes compared with omental adipocytes (25, 26).

On the left side of the highest image and the fitting facet of the bottom picture — you will notice omental fat.

When the researchers compared primary ovarian cancer tissue with ovarian cancer tissue which had spread to the omentum, they found that tumor cells next to omental fat cells produced high levels of FABP4.

When Kirkland took progenitor fat cells from human fats — subcutaneous, omental, and mesenteric — and cultured them, they retained their distinctive characteristics even after 40 population doublings.

After I posted my last piece about burning off omental fat, I got a simple question from a reader named Rosemary that got me going over the hype about coconut oil.

But a difference still exists between fat within the organ and fat around the organs (omental fat).

This is also called «omental fat» and some of you may have heard or read about this type of fat in humans.