Fat Cell Dysfunction Can Trigger Obesity

Tue, 27 Sep 2011
A new study highlights the relationship between lipid cell dysfunction and chronic diseases like diabetes, obesity and blood lipid disorders.

These findings could assist in the prevention of metabolic diseases in the future.

Karolinska Institutet scientists measured the radioactive isotope carbon-14 and demonstrated that fat cells in overweight individuals are more able to store fats but are less capable of ridding themselves of them.

This is the first time that anyone has shown how the metabolism of fat in the fat cells differs between healthy individuals and obese ones.

This makes way for new research and therapies which impact the storage and release of fat from fat cells.

The researchers experimented on tissue samples from nearly a hundred people who ranged between slim and greatly obese.

The findings showed that while the fat stored in the fat cells of healthy people is renewed on average six times over the ten year lifespan of a fat cell, those with type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, demonstrated a lesser ability to eliminate fat from their fat cells.

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