fat in Biological News

Common allergy drug reduces obesity and diabetes in mice

... systemsin this case, controlling inflammation in fat tissue. fat tissue from obese and insulin-resistant mice and ... contrast to an already reported overabundance in fat tissue of inflammatory immune cells called ...

Biodiesel on the wing: A 'green' process for biodiesel from feather meal

... and nitrogen content. With as much as 12 percent fat content, feather meal has potential as an ... researchers describe a new process for extracting fat from chicken feather meal using boiling water and ... worldwide. In addition, they note that removal of fat content from feather meal results in both a ...

Study explains potential failure of oral contraceptives with obese women

... Cherala said. "But body weight and amounts of fat can seriously change the pharmacokinetics, or way ... "lipophilic," or tend to concentrate in fat tissue. However, the researchers in this study ... to find that the affinity of these drugs for fat tissue was not significantly different between ...

Two dietary oils, two sets of benefits for older women with diabetes

... that both oils, by themselves, can lower body fat in obese postmenopausal women with Type 2 ... of supplementation with safflower oil reduced fat in the trunk area, lowered blood sugar and ... of time, on the other hand, reduced total body fat and lowered the women's body mass index (BMI), a ...

New MRI technique could mean fewer breast biopsies in high-risk women

... also makes it possible for radiologists to view fat images and water images separately, which is particularly useful because fat composes a large portion of the breast. "Rarely ... concentrating on water images, but sometimes our fat images of the breast are also useful. The ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly Presspac -- June 17, 2009

... vinegar can help prevent accumulation of body fat and weight gain. Their study is scheduled for the ... control blood pressure, blood sugar levels, and fat accumulation. Their new study showed that ... acetic acid developed significantly less body fat (up to 10 percent less) than other mice. ...

Drinking milk in the morning may help stave off lunchtime hunger

... a new reason for the weight-conscious to drink fat free milk at breakfast time, suggests a new study ... . Researchers in Australia found that drinking fat free milk in the morning helped increase satiety, ... one in which they were served about 20 ounces of fat free milk, and one in which they were served the ...

Peripheral nerve repair with fat precursor cells led to wider nerves and less muscle atrophy

... Fla. (June 16, 2009) To determine if guided fat (adipose) precursor cells (APCs) could improve ... cells that are relatively easy to isolate from fat tissue and in sufficient amounts to be injected ... into cartilage (chondrogenic), bone (osteogenic), fat (adipogenic) and muscle (myogenic) cell types. ...

Fatty foods -- not empty stomach -- fire up hunger hormone

... diet, mice without GOAT accumulated less fat than normal mice, while those with over-expressed GOAT accumulated more fat mass than normal mice. "When exposed to ... fat," says Tschp. "Mice without GOAT gain less fat since their brain does not receive the 'fats are ...

Researchers engineer metabolic pathway in mice to prevent diet-induced obesity

... lot of fat. When they germinate, they convert the fat to sugar to grow. The reason they can digest fat this way is because they have a set of enzymes ... it is too full and that it needs to stop using fat and begin making it. Malonyl-CoA is high after ...

UCSF discovers new glucose-regulating protein linked with diabetes

... that releases it upon insulin stimulation. fat cells also form a GLUT4 compartment and take up ... In type 2 diabetes, however, the muscle and fat cells fail to respond appropriately to the ... identified a protein in both human muscle and fat cells, called CHC22, which appears to control the ...

Researcher garners major award from NIH for further exploration into the mechanisms of obesity

... investigation into the communication loop between fat cells and the brain, which Bartness has ... Albert Einstein College of Medicine, found that fat cells give feedback to the brain in order to regulate fat burning, much the same way as a thermostat sends ...

Cold and brown fat raise the prospect of a new method of treating obesity

... by Enerbck and others show that adults use brown fat to convert energy to heat - a discovery that may ... It has previously been believed that the brown fat found in infants disappears as we grow up, but the new study shows that this is not the case. Brown fat cells have been found in adults, in the lower ...

Findings show insulin -- not genes -- linked to obesity

... identical cells store widely differing amounts of fat depending on subtle variations in how cells ... Learning the precise mechanism responsible for fat storage in cells could lead to methods for ... the faster a cell processes insulin, the more fat it stores. Other researchers have suggested ...

Difference in fat storage may explain lower rate of liver disease in African-Americans

... 27, 2009 Where different ethnic groups store fat in their bodies may account for differences in ... and other organs. Body composition, including fat distribution, also was scrutinized. The study ... have high levels of triglycerides and abdominal fat both characteristics of insulin resistance when ...

Gladstone scientists reveal key enzyme in fat absorption

... found that a key enzyme involved in absorbing fat may also be a key to reducing it. The enzyme, ... plays an important part in the uptake of dietary fat by catalyzing a critical step in making ... Triglyceride accounts for nearly one-third of the fat eaten by people in developed countries. ...

Why do women store fat differently from men?

... for generations their apparent ability to store fat more efficiently than men, despite eating ... between one hormone oestrogen and its impact on fat storage for childbearing. On average, women have 6 to 11 percent more body fat than men. Studies show oestrogen reduces a ...

Researchers uncover 'obesity gene' involved in weight gain response to high-fat diet

... The researchers found that a diet rich in fat induced production of this gene, called protein kinase C beta (PKC beta), in the fat cells of mice. These mice rapidly gained weight ... the high-fat diet produced more PKC beta in their fat tissue than did mice eating a regular diet. ...

'Fattysaurus' or 'thinnysaurus'? How dinosaurs measure up with laser imaging

... Even scientists cannot be sure exactly how fat or thin animals like T. rex were in life, and ... people to see and decide for themselves how fat or thin the dinosaurs might have been in life. ... it and say, 'I think this reconstruction is too fat or too thin'. He added: "This study will help ...

High-fat diets inflame fat tissue around blood vessels, contribute to heart disease

... consumed for a short amount of time, can inflame fat tissue surrounding blood vessels, possibly ... arteries of humans. The researchers found these fat cells to be highly inflamed, suggesting that they ... They also found that the inflammation of fat tissues around the arteries of mice is increased ...

Fighting obesity and illness with a novel approach to nutrition

... obesity and high levels of a type of blood fat called triglycerides which are a strong predictor ... Omega-3 fats are a type of poly-unsaturated fat thought to play an important role in reducing the ... meat and dairy products by lowering the level of fat and saturated fats and increasing the level of ...

Disabling enzyme allows mice to gorge without becoming obese, new study finds

... "We have discovered a new enzyme within fat cells that is a key regulator of fat metabolism and body weight, making it a promising ... A2 (AdPLA), is found in abundance only in fat tissue. AdPLA sets off a chain of events that ...

Control of blood vessels a possible weapon against obesity

... in their adipose tissue and metabolise body fat more quickly, according to a new study from ... to combat obesity and diabetes. The growth of fat cells and their metabolism depend on oxygen and ... A possible way to regulate the amount of body fat in order, for instance, to combat obesity can ...

Tips from the American Journal of Pathology

... fat Tissue Is Sensitive to Irradiation ... Louis Bugnard found that irradiation damages fat tissue. They report their findings in the January ... tissues. Autologous transplant of tissues such as fat tissue has often been used to prevent the ...

UT faculty members win American Heart Association awards for advancing research

... a manuscript describing the origin of the fat cells in the heart in a disease condition ... disease, which is a genetic disorder, excessive fat cells replace cardiac myocytes in the heart, ... of the heart. She and her colleagues showed that fat cells originate from the stem cells in the heart ...

Brain background to body mass

... rather than the chemical processes of energy or fat metabolism. Obesity is an increasing problem ... by genetic variation in obesity, rather than fat tissue or digestive processes," says Dr Ines ... process foods and use stores of energy, such as fat tissue. A part of the brain called the ...

Transplanted fat cells restore function after spinal cord injury

... (Vol.17, No. 8) suggests that mature adipocytes - fat cells - could become a source for cell ... vitro setting. In their study, for the first time fat cells have been shown to successfully differentiate into neuronal cells in in vivo tests. The fat cells are grown under culture conditions that ...

Apple or pear shape is not main culprit to heart woes -- it's liver fat

... heart disease than apple-shaped people who carry fat in the abdomen. But new findings from nutrition ... risk. In two studies, they report excess liver fat appears to be the real key to insulin resistance, ... and cardiovascular disease. Having too much fat stored in the liver is known as nonalcoholic ...

New 'control knobs' for stem cells identified

... marrow as the hMSCs were differentiating into fat and bone cells. They found that hyperpolarization ... membrane potential profiles during bone vs. fat differentiation. To determine whether ... that occurs during differentiation and suppressed fat and bone cell differentiation markers. In ...

Brandeis and Smart Balance team up to advance heart-healthy research

... to develop a second-generation heart-healthy fat for Smart Balance. The funding will support ... ratio, in part, by replacing dietary trans fat in food products. Under the agreement, $1 ... ago to replace heart-damaging trans fat. Trans fat raises serum levels of LDL, so-called bad ...

Researchers at UH explore use of fat cells as heart attack therapy

... labels, conventional wisdom tells us that fat isn't good for the heart. But a team of University of Houston researchers has set out to use fat cells to beef up heart muscles damaged by heart ... working with ADSCs is that they can be taken from fat quite easily. And who wouldn't mind giving up a ...

Resveratrol prevents fat accumulation in livers of 'alcoholic' mice

... Md. (Oct. 14, 2008) − The accumulation of fat in the liver as a result of chronic alcohol ... found that resveratrol reduced the amount of fat produced in the liver of mice fed alcohol and, at the same time, increased the rate at which fat within the liver is broken down. Chronic ...

Fat-regenerating 'stem cells' found in mice

... of the progenitor cells isolated from the fat tissue of normal mice can restore normal fat tissue in animals that are otherwise lacking it. ... by an increase in both the size and number of fat cells. "In obesity, there is an increase ...

Making metabolism more inefficient can reduce obesity

... In fact, bodybuilders and dieters looking to burn fat commonly use thermogenic supplements like ... for the efficient production of heat, mouse white fat cells activated alternate, and more inefficient, fat burning pathways. In this case, though, ...

Scientists discover why a mother's high-fat diet contributes to obesity in her children

... scientists found that female mice fed high fat diets were more likely to have oversized ... risk factor for overweight and obesity) because fat causes the placenta to go into "overdrive" by ... suggests that the reverse may be true as wellhigh fat diets may help prevent undersized babies. "Our ...

Researchers study how pistachios may improve heart health

... American diet consisting of 35 percent total fat and 11 percent saturated fat for two weeks. They then tested three diets for ... with no pistachios and about 25 percent total fat and 8 percent saturated fat. The pistachio ...

For insulin sensitive overweight patients, 1 session of exercise improves metabolic health

... complications are associated with an abnormal fat metabolism in the muscle. As a result, accumulated fat by-products inside the muscle affect insulin resistance. To avoid the build up of fat ...

Older people who diet without exercising lose valuable muscle mass

... Exercise increases efficiency, burns more fat The researchers measured how many calories ... to the beginning. Exercise group drew more on fat stores as the source of their body's fuel. ... group, like the exercise-only group, drew more on fat stores as an energy source. "The take-home ...

Cortisol and fatty liver: Researchers find cause of severe metabolic disorders

... A healthy body stores fat in the form of so-called triglycerides in ... of the lipid metabolism gets out of control and fat is accumulated in the liver, leading to the ... which conditions cause the body to deposit fat in the liver. However, scientists knew that the ...

Scavenger birds chew the fat

... and choose only the bones containing the highest fat content both for its consumption and delivery to ... sound ecological sense because due to their high fat content, mammal bones actually have a higher ... vultures also selected the bones with the highest fat content to transport to their nests. ...