Latest Adipose tissue Stories
Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Invasive surgery is, for the body, a particularly traumatic experience. However, for many, the greater trauma occurs during the recovery period immediately following a surgery. This is caused by inflammation of fat tissue, which is always negatively affected during a major surgery. Fat tissue is one of the most dominant components that make up the body. A new study, conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital...
Truth About Cellulite is a newly updated cellulite removal method created by Joey Atlas, who claims to help people get rid of cellulite fast and permanently. A full Truth About Cellulite review in a series of health reviews on the site Vkool.com shows if the treatment method is safe for users to apply. Seattle, Wa (PRWEB) March 17, 2013 Truth About Cellulite is the latest cellulite removal method created by Joey Atlas, who claims to help people get rid of cellulite fast and permanently....
Enid Burns for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Many of us don't know the difference between brown fat cells and white fat cells. But researchers at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, led by Patrick Seale, Ph.D., are looking at brown fat cells to better understand how they develop. The researchers believe that the brown fat cell makes heat for the body, which has helped mammals cope with the cold. New theories say the warmth generated in brown fat cells...
Johns Hopkins researchers use a type of stem cells from human adipose tissue to chase migrating cancer cells In laboratory studies, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have found that stem cells from a patient's own fat may have the potential to deliver new treatments directly into the brain after the surgical removal of a glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of brain tumor. The investigators say so-called mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have an unexplained ability to seek out...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have uncovered a direct genetic link between fat and bone mass – a discovery that they claim brings the medical community one step closer to understanding how both types of tissues are interconnected on a biological level. Genetics play an important role in the composition of the human body, and can play a key role in whether or not a person becomes obese or develops osteoporosis,...
Topline Data Expected in Third Quarter 2013 as First Patient Is Treated in 500-Patient "RESET" Trial SAN DIEGO, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lithera, Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company focused on lifestyle and medical indications in aesthetic medicine and ophthalmology, announced today that the first patient has been treated with LIPO-202 (Salmeterol Xinafoate for Injection) in its 500-patient Phase 2b "RESET" trial. LIPO-202, Lithera's lead product candidate, is a...
Overweight couch potatoes live a dangerous life: Epidemiologists estimate that about 80 percent of the most common diseases are linked to severe overweight and obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. Obese people are at an increased risk for cardiovascular diseases, vascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes and cancer. This lowers their life expectancy. Weight loss and physical activity help to counteract this. Women who lose weight lower their breast cancer risk. Regular physical activity lowers...
Dr. Christine Brown, located in Dallas Texas, is now offering the latest technological advancement in fat reduction technology. Treatments with the CoolSculpting device, which uses targeted cooling to eliminate stubborn fat cells without damaging surface skin, result in a 20% reduction of fat with each treatment. Dallas, TX (PRWEB) March 06, 2013 Dr. Christine Brown, located in Dallas Texas, is now offering the latest technological advancement in fat reduction technology. Treatments with...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A research team from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Obesity and Metabolism Laboratory at Tufts University has discovered that deleting a specific gene in mice prevents them from becoming obese, even if they are fed a high fat diet. The team believes this finding has the potential to be replicated in humans. "When fed a diet that induces obesity these mice don't get fat," said James McManaman, Ph.D.,...
HOUSTON, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The inflammation of fat tissue is part of a spiraling series of events that leads to the development of type 2 diabetes in some obese people. But researchers have not understood what triggers the inflammation, or why. In Cell Metabolism this month (cover), scientists from The Methodist Hospital report fat cells themselves are at least partly to blame -- high calorie diets cause the cells to make major histocompatibility complex II, a...
