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brown fat cell

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brown fat cell [¦brau̇n ′fat ‚sel]
(histology)
A moderately large, generally spherical cell in adipose tissue that has small fat droplets scattered in the cytoplasm.


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Byline: ANI Washington, Oct 13 (ANI): Manipulating a cellular process, called autophagy-which has been found to regulate the formation and inter-conversion of white fat cells and brown fat cells in mice-could solve the problem of obesity, a new study has found.
We had no idea from preserved skeletons and preserved carcasses that young mammoths had a discrete structure on the back of the head of brown fat cells," Fisher told reporters.
We had no idea from preserved skeletons and preserved carcasses that young mammoths had a discrete structure on the back of the head of brown fat cells," Fisher told reporters.
 
 
 
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