Study: SARS-CoV-2 infects adipose tissue in a fat depot- and viral lineage-dependent manner.Image Credit: Victor Josan/Shutterstock Background. Obesity increases the risk of severe coronavirus ...

The researchers focused on an enzyme known as cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), ... Herzig believes that brown fat may originate from a mother cell of adipose tissue that by default tends to make white fat.

Adipose tissue glucose transport and GLUT4 levels regulate systemic insulin sensitivity and whole-body energy balance, which have implications for the pathogenesis and treatment of obesity and diab ...

Scientists have found out how some fat cells are turned into calorie-burning brown fat known as brown adipose tissue rather than into the white ... since the COX-2 function needed for brown fat to ...