Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cell containing fat. See cut under
sweat-gland .
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Examples
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It is indeed widely believed that failure to accomodate excess calories in fat tissue (as a result of limited fat-cell formation) may promote fat deposition in other tissues (liver, muscle, heart), thereby promoting the development of metabolic risk factors like insulin resistance.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Obesity Goes Viral? 2009
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But fat-cell function doesn't necessarily correlate with weight gain.
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The study found a hormonal cocktail routinely used in the lab induces a key genetic switch in the transition from fat-cell precursors to full-blown fat, researchers at University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute report in the September Cell Metabolism.
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And yet, rid the fat-cell of the weight of his sordid gains, gaunt him down, as it were, like a hound for the wolf-trail, and he becomes at once an active and aggressive member of the binding-stuff group, ready for the repair of a wound or the barring out of a tubercle-bacillus.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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When fat cells shrink, levels of a fat-cell hormone, leptin, drop faster than fat mass is reduced.
NYT > Home Page By C. CLAIBORNE RAY 2011
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"Our study highlights the fact that collagen VI, and possibly other extracellular matrix constituents, are extremely important in modulating fat-cell physiology," he said.
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They even help fight wrinkles and may block fat-cell formation.
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The amount of data is enormous, and may allow additional insights into how fat-cell genes are regulated.
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The amount of data is enormous, and may allow additional insights into how fat-cell genes are regulated.
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New biocomputing methods allowed first author Martina I. Lefterova, a PhD candidate in the Lazar lab, to discover roughly 5,300 additional sites that PPAR gamma targets in fat-cell DNA.
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