SUMMARY: Adipose tissue morphology of different fat tissue depots can be described using the number of adipocytes and cell surface of adipocytes. This study deals with characteristics and morphometric analysis of white and brown adipose tissue depots in healthy adult laboratory mice, hamsters and rats of...
Resumen El tejido adiposo es un órgano endocrino con gran actividad metabólica. A la fecha se han descubierto innumerables adipocinas y lipocinas, péptidos y lípidos con actividad biológica, secretadas por el tejido adiposo. Se sabe que tanto el tejido adiposo blanco como el pardo y el beige contrib...
ABSTRACT Background: Thermogenic activity in the brown adipose tissue (BAT) of obese individuals is reduced, and this condition may be modified by bariatric surgery (BS). Aim: To characterize fat deposition in BAT from hypothalamic obese (HyO) rats submitted to duodenal-jejunal-bypass (DJB) surgery. ...
Considering the recognized role of thyroid hormones on the cardiovascular system during health and disease, we hypothesized that type 2 deiodinase (D2) activity, the main activation pathway of thyroxine (T4)-to-triiodothyronine (T3), could be an important site to modulate thyroid hormone status, which wo...
A prevalência de obesidade e suas co-morbidades vem crescendo rapidamente no Brasil e no mundo, constituindo uma verdadeira pandemia com impactos sócio-econômicos importantes. O desenvolvimento de tratamentos efetivos na perda sustentada de peso, e com perfil de segurança adequa...
ABSTRACT Obesity is characterized by an excessive increase in the adipose tissue mass, and is associated with higher incidence of several chronic metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes. Therefore, its increasing prevalence is a public health concern, and it is important to better understand its etio...
ABSTRACT Here, we evaluated whether the exposure of rats to a cafeteria diet pre- and/or post-weaning, alters histological characteristics in the White Adipose Tissue (WAT), Brown Adipose Tissue (BAT), and liver of adult male offspring. Female Wistar rats were divided into Control (CTL; fed on standard r...
