ADIPOSE CELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adipose cell mean? 

• ADIPOSE CELL (noun)
  The noun ADIPOSE CELL has 1 sense:

1. cells composed of fat

  Familiarity information: ADIPOSE CELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADIPOSE CELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cells composed of fat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

adipose cell; fat cell

Hypernyms ("adipose cell" is a kind of...):

somatic cell; vegetative cell (any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes)

Meronyms (substance of "adipose cell"):

fat (a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides))

 Context examples 

This change in the ratio of coactivators favors increased adipogenesis in white adipose while it blocks thermogenesis in brown adipose cells by opposing Src-1/PGC-1 alpha dependent signaling.

(Obesity and Thermogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A high-fat diet increases the expression of Tif2 in both brown and white adipose cells, changing the Tif2 to Src-1 ratio.

(Obesity and Thermogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

In white adipose cells, Tif2 predominates as the PPAR-gamma coactivator, stimulating fat uptake and adipogenesis in conditions of high-fat feeding.

(Obesity and Thermogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)