It shuts off the neurotransmitters in response to leptin, a hormone released by fat cells.
The fat cells here are really active, producing toxic substances that cause damage which can lead to heart disease.
The fat cells release biochemicals that lead to inflammation, which could lead to heart attacks, strokes and joint and muscle pain.
This minimally invasive process freezes fat cells and causes them to die and disappear over the course of a couple months.
It is also present in fat cells, and blocking it seems to help the body more efficiently process sugar and fat from food.
The machine breaks up the fat cells through a chemical enzyme.
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For example, higher levels of the female sex hormone estrogen can stimulate the growth of breast and endometrial cancers, and fat cells are known to produce estrogen.
They believe that in some women plasma can stimulate fat cells and cause them to release excessive amounts of fatty acids and other toxic products triggering pre-eclampsia.
We will routinely turn off genes that promote disease and aging such as the fat insulin receptor gene that tells the fat cells to hold onto excess fat.
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In the case of IntelliCell, the company focuses more on producing large amounts of SVF cells from just a small amount of autologous fat cells of about 2 oz.
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It is unclear exactly how the fat increases the clot risk, but experts believe it could be partly physical - compression on the veins - and partly chemical - fat cells make hormones that encourage clotting.
Professor Ian MacDonald, an expert in the chemistry of nutrition at the University of Nottingham, said PEDF was one of many chemicals produced by fat cells and it was unclear how they all interacted with each other.
You can increase fat cells or not.
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Gaining too much weight is a major contributor to Type 2 diabetes, since excess fat cells can affect the way the body breaks down glucose and produces insulin, but some normal weight individuals can develop the disease as well.
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Now, the Stanford study has shown fat cells can be a player in the quickly evolving area of iPS stem cell research, not because they have their own stem cells but because the fat cells can be turned into iPS cells.
"There are special receptors on the fat cells deep inside the abdomen which are specifically intended to hook up with stress hormone -- and stress hormone stimulates them to accept fat, " said Peeke, a former senior scientist at the National Institutes of Health.
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When embryonic stem cells were a highly controversial topic at the beginning of the decade, some companies offered to store fat cells from liposuction for a fee after it was discovered that there were stem cells in the fat, but their practical use had not been established.
Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that the millions of fat cells removed during liposuction can be easily and quickly turned into induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, more easily than the skin cells that researchers used when the first iPS cells were created in 2007.
The iPS cells, which have many of the same basic properties, do not raise the same ethical questions as embryonic stem cells because they come from skin or now fat cells that have been reprogrammed to go back in time, so to speak, and have the ability to turn into any other kind of cell in the body.
The workhorse liver cells, called hepatocytes, sit next to cells that store fat, immune cells and endothelial cells.
The medicines work by affecting molecular switches that control the entry of sugar and fat into cells.
One day, says McDaniel, his GentleWaves device may even be shown to spur hair growth and, if it can be made to work in reverse, stall the growth of fat or cancer cells.
To improve the MRI's ability to spot the most inflamed plaque, Fayad (like many others) is trying to develop nanoparticles that would be injected into patients and would lodge in fat-laden cells in the artery walls.
Cytori Therapeutics has created a family of medical devices and disposable supplies to extract a cocktail of stem and regenerative cells from a patient's fat and re-inject those cells into the patient during the same surgical procedure.
By using the ultrasonic method, Dr. Victor says he turns the 2 oz. of fat into SVF stem cells of between 0.5 billion and 1.4 billion.
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It is testing compounds that block an enzyme, called Lp-PLA2, that attaches to cholesterol particles and chops off globs of fat that attract immune cells into the arteries.
The process of detoxification allows the liver to convert fat solubles stored in our cells into water-soluble substances that can easily be excreted.
Notable losers in May included BioTime, a regenerative medicine firm run by Michael West, who was one of the key figures in the early days of embryonic stem cell research, and Cytori Therapeutics, which is trying to commercialize stem cells found in fat for breast reconstruction and other uses.
They picked a hormone called glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) that is made by intestinal cells in response to sugar and fat.
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The retinal nerve fiber layer is the one part of the brain where nerve cells are not covered with the fat and protein sheathing called myelin, making this assessment specific for nerve damage as opposed to brain MRI changes, which reflect an array of different types of tissue processes in the brain.
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