How to Use adipose tissue in a Sentence

adipose tissue

noun
  • The body has two main types of adipose tissue or fat — white and brown.
    — Kelly Dinardo, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Brown adipose tissue supports weight loss better than white fat.
    — Dallas News, 18 July 2022
  • Females also have less skeletal mass and more adipose tissue (body fat) than men.
    — Patty Weasler, Rn, Bsn, Verywell Health, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Fat is made of adipose tissue while muscles are composed of different types of protein.
    — Philly.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Some gets stored in the liver as a reserve tank, and any excess is stored as fat, both in the liver and in adipose tissue around your body.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 23 May 2019
  • In fact, adipose tissue, or fat tissue, produces excess amounts of estrogen.
    — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 13 June 2024
  • Your body’s brown adipose tissue – a type of fat – also becomes active and produces heat rather than energy.
    — Cara Ocobock, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Grains of Paradise - Part of the ginger family that revs up brown adipose tissue.
    — Mark Anderson, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • In a healthy body, adipose tissue plays a positive role, serving as reservoir of energy in times of food scarcity.
    — Tammy Worth, Scientific American, 24 June 2021
  • The largest system, the integumentary and adipose tissues, consists mainly of skin and fat.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Fasting also triggers a metabolic switch, prompting the body to burn fat and glucose stored in adipose tissue.
    — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Fat is not just storage White adipose tissue, the most abundant type of fat in adults, does store energy in the form of triglycerides.
    — Claudio Villanueva, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The Arctic ground squirrel does it by tapping thick stores of brown adipose tissue, a kind of fat and muscle common in human infants.
    — Gregory Mone, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2013
  • This seems to be true for abdominal adipose tissue, the most common subject of obesity studies.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Most of this weight loss will come from adipose tissue (otherwise known as body fat), but some of it may also come from lean mass (otherwise known as muscle tissue).
    — Lauren Bedosky, SELF, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The physician makes a number of passes with the instrument and creates a number of pencil-sized tunnels through the adipose tissue.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2018
  • After a skin injury, the researchers found that macrophages, a type of white blood cell, infiltrate dermal adipose tissue, a tissue found in the layers of the skin.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Weight Changes Estrogen is produced mainly from adipose tissue (the tissue that makes up fat) after menopause.
    — Kiera Aaron, Health, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Researchers collected samples of adipose tissue or fat tissue to see how the two groups stored fat, a process known as adipogenesis.
    — Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2022
  • That’s because if a person gains fat and the body can’t store it in subcutaneous fat cells, it gets stored as a more dangerous type of adipose tissue called visceral fat.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2024
  • This process, often called browning, reveals that adipose tissue is remarkably flexible.
    — Claudio Villanueva, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
  • There’s also fat loss and, the great news is, a large percentage of that is abdominal fat, harmful adipose tissue linked to serious health issues.
    — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Through suction methods, this procedure removes excess fat tissue (also known as lipid or adipose tissue) underneath the skin.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Both groups experienced decreases in epicardial adipose tissue (one of two kinds of fat deposits surrounding the heart).
    — Pam Moore, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Trimtone contains grains of paradise, a plant that activates brown adipose tissue in your body, speeding up fat loss and keeping your energy levels stable.
    — Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The grains activate brown adipose tissue, lowering blood sugar levels and producing heat that speeds up your metabolism.
    — Norcal Marketing, Chron, 4 Feb. 2021
  • The most common therapies use mesenchymal stem cells (MSC), which are adult stem cells taken from donors’ bone marrow or adipose tissue.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Stimulating these neurons prods them to send signals to brown adipose tissue, a highly metabolic fat located on the upper back that is tasked with turning up body heat when things get too chilled.
    — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 5 June 2023
  • Obesity and cancer risk Excess calorie consumption can lead to weight gain and the accumulation of adipose tissue (body fat).
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg Fox News, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Obesity is an inflammatory disease, where adipose tissue, or fat cells, release toxins known as cytokines into the bloodstream.
    — Christopher Thompson, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024

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