Sentence examples for adipocyte from inspiring English sources
noun
A type of cell, present in adipose tissue, where fat is stored as a source of energy
Its website said the product contained a compound called Volufiline, which would "stimulate adipocyte differentiation and promote lipid storage, leading to an increase in adipocyte volume in the fatty tissue".Not only was there no scientific evidence for this, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled last month, but beauty products in Britain are not licensed to modify physiology.
Adipose cell, also called adipocyte or fat cell, connective-tissue cell specialized to synthesize and contain large globules of fat.
If that last statement didn't make your eyebrows rise in surprise, you are not an adipocyte biologist.
They fill more than 95percentt of the adipocyte volume, crowding the cytoplasm with its proteins and the nucleus with its genes up against the cell wall in what Dr. Kahn calls "a crescent moon space".
In higher animals and humans, adipose tissue consisting of adipocytes (fat cells) is widely distributed over the body mainly under the skin, around deep blood vessels, and in the abdominal cavity and to a lesser degree in association with muscles.
The healthy obese had 11 percent more adipocytes, or fat cells, in their subcutaneous fat tissue than their normal weight twins.
Our body fat is made of some 40 billion fat cells, or adipocytes, and their supportive matrix, with most of the bulk stashed under the skin but also threaded viscerally, around and between other organs.
