Adipose tissue

most important risk factor is obesity, with 80% of type 2 diabetes patients being obese, and the global incidence of diabetes rising proportionally with obesity rates. Insulin resistance is the decreased response of peripheral tissues, especially adipose and liver tissue, and skeletal muscle to insulin. Beta cell dysfunction is the failure of pancreatic cells to secrete insulin when…

The typical fast food meal can range from nine-hundred to one-thousand eight-hundred calories. Most children’s diets are dependable on these convenient greasy foods. These meals are one of the major causes of obesity. Obesity is the state of having excess fat in the body. Children should be more concerned with what they are eating because kids are not getting the nutrition they need, food choices can affect their choices in the future, and unhealthy food can cause major health problems. In an…

It consist of principally loose connective tissue. Some of glands found in the subcutaneous tissue are Ceruminous Glands, Modified Apocrine Sweat Glands that produce ear wax. Hair follicles and ceruminous glands are specific sudoriferous glands sweat found subcutaneously in the outer auditory channel. Ceruminous glands are…

Menopause is often described as an increase in waistline circumference and fat mass (FM). Women on their postmenopausal stage with more adipose tissue are more susceptible to metabolic complications than those physically fit postmenopausal women. (Ele´onor Riesco, PhD,1,2 et. al, 2010) There is a unique benefit from exercise to these women for a reason that it could increase the total and abdominal…

The hormone cortisol is a very important hormone for regular function in humans and many other animals. Cortisol is a steroid hormone (a derivative of cholesterol).1 It is produced in the adrenal glands of the kidneys2 and is especially important when an individual faces a stressor.3 Unusually high or low concentrations of cortisol will almost certainly have an adverse effect on regular human function. In healthy humans, cortisol is at its highest concentration when an individual…

It is mostly dense irregular connective tissue and has a rich blood supply. It contains dermal papillae, which are projections that interlock with epidermal ridges. The layers of the dermis include the papillary dermis which is the upper most layer and contains the dermal papillae, and the reticular…

Obesity is increasing in prevalence and is associated with many non-communicable diseases including: stroke, type II diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, coronary heart disease, cancer, and other adverse health states. As prevalence of obesity increases, the popularity of bariatric surgery also rises for treatment in obesity by achieving and managing long-term weight loss while decreasing health risks. (A, p 1-2)(B, p 2)(C, p 2). The most common type of bariatric surgery performed is the…

non-invasive imaging modality which determines the tumors according to their stiffness (elasticity). Strain images representing the relative stiffness of lesions in comparison to the stiffness of surrounding normal tissue as malignant tumors tend to be stiffer than the normal tissue, which results in under compression. Purpose: To prospectively evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the real-time sonoelastography together with B-mode US for distinguishing between benign and malignant…

adding phosphate groups to a neighboring protein and oxytocin helps by promoting cell proliferation. Oxytocin levels and oxytocin receptors reduce the expression in muscle stem cells during aging which in turn affects the homeostasis of skeletal muscle tissue (Colaianni, Sun, Zaidi and Zallone 2015). In females, oxytocin helps to induce labor by contracting the uterus. It also stimulates the ejection of milk in the breasts and stops once breast feeding cease (Elabd and Sabry 2105). In males,…

effects of excess fatty tissue aren’t understood completely. Trying to better understand what obesity is we need to look at adipose tissue and where the action takes place and what does it effect. The hormone that adipose tissue secretes is Leptin, this hormone helps in the regulate insulin sensitivity. Leptin acts on receptor sites in the hypothalamus and helps to suppress the appetite as well as has a role in regulating temperature. When there is too much adipose tissue a chronic inflammatory…