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While further studies are needed, they suggested that chemicals produced by fat tissue may be responsible.
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The body produces less healthy estrogen, and more estrone -- a type of estrogen that comes from your body's fat tissue.
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Worse, once absorbed, the chemical is locked into the body's fat tissue (it is only excreted through the placenta and in breast milk).
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However, if the tissue is mostly fat in an obese patient, he will have to pay attention to diet and exercise to maintain the result, he said.
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The autopsy conducted after his death found "extensive contusions of his chest, arms, shoulder and back, " as well as "evidence of crushing of areas of subcutaneous fat" -- which is the fatty tissue directly under a person's skin.
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Fat or muscle was used to fill in the area after tissue was removed.
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Any excess fat is sucked out with liposuction, but the excess glandular tissue has to be removed through a u-shaped incision around the nipple.
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The French scientists looked at 163 non-drinkers who had fatty livers - where fat deposits build up in the organ, potentially leading to formation of fibrous tissue and then to cirrhosis or even liver cancer - to see how many of them had the sleep disorder.
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In a healthy mouse (one with working leptin receptors) even a diet that is 60% fat does not cause a build-up of lipids anywhere except in the adipose tissue.
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In particular, the potential for mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) to differentiate into multiple phenotypes - like fat, cartilage and bone - make them ideal building blocks for bone and cartilage tissue engineering in orthopaedics and rheumatology.
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Professor Petot said it was possible that when fat was broken down by the body it released substances known as free radicals that can cause tissue damage, and might precipitate the development of Alzheimer's symptoms.
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