BROWN AND WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE

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• Connective Tissues and Homeostatic Imbalance

  Obesity or being overweight in humans and most animals does not depend on body weight but on the amount of body fat—specifically, adipose tissue. Two types of adipose tissue exist: white adipose tissue (WAT) and brown adipose tissue (BAT).

• Connective tissue's function and Structure

  - Brown fat cells are adipose with multiple mitochondria and multiple lipid cells that are involved in producing heat to keep the person warm (King, 2011).

• carbohydrates causing deposition of fats in adipose tissue

  6956 carbohydrates causing deposition of fats in adipose tissue Consuming too many carbohydrates causes deposition of fats in adipose tissue, how can this happen and why aren't the molecules stored in glycogen instead?

• Connective tissue

  Macrophages job is to remove and digest the " by-products of both bacterial warfare and normal growth and degeneration. " (1) There are also wandering connective tissue cells or white blood cells that travel in and out of connective tissue.

• ADIPOCYTES, PHOSPHOLIPIDS & BIRDS

  ; Summary: Adipose tissue mass depends on adipocyte number and adipocyte size.

• Chemotherapeutic drugs, tissue types, bone callus, white fat

  Chemotherapeutic drugs, tissue types, bone calluses, and the transformation of white fat to brown fat is explained.

• Basic function of cell

  Adipose Tissue is a loose connective tissue in which the adipocytes cells are specialized for storage of triglycerides. Adipocytes are derived from fibroblasts. Adipose tissue is a good insulator and can reduce heat loss through the skin.

• hormonal feedback loops

  Generally, the more adipose tissue present, the more leptin produced and present in the blood. Some severly obese people have a mutation in the gene for the leptin receptor.

• Current obesity theories and weight management

  of excess adipose tissue in the body leading to more than 20%of the desirable weight.