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Murine Brown Adipose Tissue

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Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and the Adipose Organ

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The brownish areas of the adipose organ are constituted of brown adipose tissue (BAT). The lower right panel of this plate shows the color and gross appearance of white and brown fat. This last is a lobular tissue in which the parenchymal cell is a multilocular roundish cell with a central nucleus, called brown adipocyte. The vacuoles are made up of triglycerides. These same molecules are stored in white adipocytes, which are mainly unilocular.

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  1. Professor of Anatomy, Director, Center of Obesity, University of Ancona (Politecnica delle Marche), Ancona, Italy

    Saverio Cinti MD

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Cinti, S. (2018). Murine Brown Adipose Tissue. In: Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and the Adipose Organ. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40522-3_2

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