Diets and weight-loss drugs are marketed with health halos. But the real drive to lose weight is the societal stigma around ...

Obesity is a global health concern closely linked to a range of metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. A research team from the Department of Pharmacology and ...

also called white adipose tissue. This treatment could potentially be combined with low doses of estrogen therapy to cut changes in body fat distribution in menopausal women and protect against ...

Adipose tissue comes in three colors: white, brown and beige. While white fat specializes in storing lipid and expands during obesity, brown fat is thermogenic, turning energy into heat. Beige fat is ...

Similarly, while expression of genes involved in lipid catabolism in inguinal white adipose tissue (iWAT) increased in both groups, inflammation- and fibrosis-related genes were upregulated ...

Recently, another type of cells called brown-in-white (BRITE) or beige cells, in white adipose tissue (WAT) have been found.3 BRITE cells possess a multilocular morphology, enriched mitochondria and ...