Talk:Adipose tissue

message: "At least 10 METs x hours per week in aerobic exercise is required for visceral fat reduction." What does this mean?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.109.217.108 (talk) 20:55, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: x hours per week

message: can this page be edited  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.197.155.138 (talk) 23:20, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: can

message: A the request of someone on the Spanish-language wikipedia, I did my best here to translate the more extensive material on this topic from the Spanish-language wikipedia. This really needs review now by a competent biologist, because I am a total layman attempting translation of technical material.
Also, in searching for vocabulary I came across http://www.lab.anhb.uwa.edu.au/mb140/CorePages/Connective/Connect.htm, which looks to my layman's eyes to be very solid and informative. I suspect it is a good mine of information and that one or more articles should include it in their external links. However, since it's totally outside my field, I can't judge it, so I'm leaving the linking to someone with a clue.
-- Jmabel 07:45, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Pannus and panniculus refer to the "apron" of fat hanging from the abdomen downwards in severe obesity. I am not aware of any difference in the two words and they are used interchangably (although etymologically the one is the diminutive of the other and they are rarely diminutive when worth discussing in a medical context). A large pannus or panniculus complicates surgery of the morbidly obese, and may remain as a literal "apron of skin" if a severely obese person loses most of the excess weight (as after a bypass). Maybe I'll add this to the article. Alteripse 13:29, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  I fail to see what the para about the panniculus has to do with actual definition or description of fat on the human body, nor why it should be described in full on this article when it has its own Pannus Panniculus.  Suggest rewording, or list as additional reading.   124.176.105.140 (talk) 14:07, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

text: looks good! so what do you do for a day job Alteripse? --Erich gasboy 13:46, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Original discussion

message: Thanks to Prometheus, the god's portion of a typical Ancient Greek animal sacrifice consisted of bones and internal organs covered with adipose tissue. Perhaps a link should be in the mythology section and not here. I'm not familiar enough with the wiki to attempt an addition, so I'm just commenting here. stevieo@nyc.rr.com
No--Awesome19800 (talk) 12:53, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should social use include ancient English sacrifices? 

message: Why does cellulite redirect here? There's nothing in this article about cellulite. -- Kimiko 21:01, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  cellulite 

message: Obesity has been nominated to be improved on Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive. Vote for it there to support the article.--Fenice 20:15, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Improvement drive

message: This section should be exclusively about the social and cultural significance of adipose tissue. Issues about body shape should be (and are) on the obesity page. Zargulon 15:40, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think this article needs to mention social and cultural significance of adipose tissue. Most people wouldn't even know what it is. JFW | T@lk 16:19, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Social and Cultural significance

message: Hi,
On the Dieting page(the exact quote is at the end of this post) it states that body fat has a large amount of carbon mass.  I was wondering if it is possible for a picture of the body fat molecules to be drawn, like was done for Hydrogen_peroxide and Lipid?
I did see the molecule picture on triglyceride and lipid, but is there one for regular fat?
"The exhalation of carbon in carbon dioxide comes from carbon mass in the body, a substantial amount of which in turn comes from fat. Essentially the greater part of body fat, the long carbon chains, is lost from the body by breathing."
Bryan 11:15, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: body fats (and vegetable fats) consist mostly of triglycerides. The exact chain lengths are highly variable. Han-Kwang 20:07, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: From the article: 
:In humans, lipolysis is controlled though the balanced control of lipolytic B-adrenergic receptors and a2A-andronergic receptor mediated antilioplysis
I think I understand about half of these words. Does this belong in Wikipedia? Han-Kwang 20:07, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Adrenergicand andronergic receptors

message: So when someone gets fatter do new adipose cells get created or are the old ones growing?--Energman 19:13, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Growth 

message: I can't see why these three terms need their own articles; I can't see them being developed much further and they could easily be accommodated within this one (or another more appropriate?) - any thoughts? Madmedea 19:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Merge - I can see them growing to deserve their own articles eventually—especially Visceral fat.  But I'd STANK agree for right now, when the three subarticles are just stubs, it makes sense to merge them.David.Throop 22:15, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

text: No Merge - I vote for allowing the other articles to grow.  They are distinct enough physiologically to warrant the independent articles.  Intramuscular fat is longer than this article!Mabris 21:35, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal

message: I have a few questions about the statement "Human fat tissue contains about 87% lipids."
Can anyone point to a scientific source that states that particular number? Also, I am wondering what the remaining 13% are. Enclosed water? Proteins? It would be great if someone could clarify and corroborate that statement. Mirko Raner 23:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources for lipid content 

message: This article currently does not mention whether obesity (or excess adipose tissue) is caused by an increased number of adipose cells, or from enlarged adipose cells, or both. It is an important point to clarify in this article. Does anyone have access to a source for this?Mehrshad123 01:40, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I asked a similar thing in "Growth" above and I got no answer --Energman 14:26, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cells making up Adipose Tissue 

message: No Merge - I think that merging visceral fat article into the main Adipose is a bad idea; there are some important distinctions, and a lot of new research being currently done in this area. More content should be added. 69.209.226.60 20:57, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging Visceral fat

message: Another comment.  I think readers are more interested in the distribution of
Adipose Tissue in Humans rather than in Mice. [E. A.]  16 August 2007
:definitely. i just was reading this and was unclear why one example of distribution is there and it was not for humans. i would expect one example to be a human example and several examples to be those of studied animals, which of course would unnecessarily lengthen the article. had i the expertise i would change it. i hope someone does. thank you.  -  Lambajan 20:33, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Human Examples

message: Titling the section Visceral fat makes it clearer because 
#) that is where Visceral fat directs.  
#) Abdominal fat (MeSH A10.165.114.160) includes both visceral/intra-abdominal fat and  subcutaneous fat, abdominal)   So calling it just abdominal fat (unless it covers both visceral and subcutaneous fat in the abdominal area) is confusing. Zodon (talk) 07:02, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abdominal fat vs visceral fat 

message: I removed angiotensin from this list because angiotensinogen is made in the liver and converted to angiotensin in the blood. I looked around for a source that says it's derived from fat tissue and couldn't find one.
Also, I have to say that I'm uncomfortable with cytokines like TNF-alpha and IL-6 being in this list. Hormones are endocrine by definition, meaning they are released into the blood and act at a remote location. Cytokines are generally paracrine, meaning they are released from the cell and act locally (on nearby cells), or autocrine, meaning they are released from the cell and act on surface receptors on the cell that just released them. Does anyone know of a true endocrine function of adipose-derived TNF-alpha and IL-6, and if so, do you have a source?
I'm sorry if I'm mistaken about these issues -- I'm a teacher, and I used to be an obesity researcher (used angiotensin II and leptin in my work), but I'm getting older... Dcs002 (talk) 09:19, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adipose-derived hormones 

message: References should follow wikipedia guideline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources#Scholarship) and not contain advertisment.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.152.132.31 (talk) 15:18, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: I don't remember the conventions about disambiguation pages.  Should adipose be a disambiguation page instead of a redirect to here?  Few readers really needed to see the hatnote about the Dr. Who monster, and there's also adipose fin and adipose gene. --Dan Wylie-Sears 2 (talk) 05:32, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adipose disambig instead of redirect? 

message: Please upload more images for this article. Pdiddyjr (talk) 16:33, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  More needed 

message: How exactly does this contribute to this article? I understand that research on mice is important in scientific research, but isn't the point of Wikipedia to further the knowledge of most readers, not scientists? Granted, like many pages in biology, this encyclopaedia talks about more than humans (animals too) but it just seems out of place to me. Am I missing something? meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 23:07, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's with the section on mice fat? 

message: On section "Anatomical features" is is stated that "In humans, adipose tissue is located beneath the skin (subcutaneous fat)". Nevertheless, in the "Abdominal fat" sub-section the last sentence of the first paragraph states "Visceral fat is considered adipose tissue whereas subcutaneous fat is not considered as such".
I hope this helps
LaFiebre (talk) 06:56, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible contradiction on subcutaneous fat as adipose tissue 

message: I know that both Brain fat and sometime other fats like Lipomastic fat aren't beta-oxidised easily for energy, either by a natural mechanism (to preserve the brain) or by a metabolic problem (Lipomastia in Men).
What is the name of such Adipose tissue? Thanks.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ben-Yeudith (talk • contribs) 10:52, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the name of brain-fat and low-priority-energy-usage-fat? 

message: It shows "white" "bedge" and "brown".
I'm assuming the bedge should be beige.
I don't know how to edit images. Jeljo (talk) 16:42, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The three colours of fat cells has a typo 

message: Abdominal obesity is currently preferred over central obesity so I have changed that to avoid confusion across articles. Altanner1991 (talk) 19:44, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main terminology should be used 

message: The second picture in the infobox (Adipocyte types.jpg) has a typo. It says "Bedge Adipocyte" where it should say "Beige Adipocyte". 2601:2C3:480:FCD0:45C8:6342:A2E6:7F86 (talk) 07:12, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I've made the change. Although the PNG preview image doesn't yet (as I type this) look different on the "File:" page, the underlying SVG file has been changed, as can be verified by, say, clicking on the image to view it full-screen. Not sure how long it will take for the changes to propagate to everywhere they need to. - dcljr (talk) 08:14, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox error