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Adipose Tissue
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Adipose Tissue
White (WAT)
- energy storage
- has firboblasts & macrophages
- has a network of reticular fibers
- divided into incomplete lobules by connective tissue
- High vascularized
- color varies from white to bright-yellow depending on diet
Brown(BAT)
- heat production
- polygonal, multilocular
- has numerous mitochondria & central spherical nucleus
- epithelial arrangement of cells around a blood capillary
- divided into lobules by connective tissue
- brown color due to mitochondria and blood vessels
- decreases with age
- increases during cold adaptation
- in adults: found around kidneys, adrenals, aorta & mediastinum
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- Mind Map on Adipose Tissue, created by jasminealsadi17 on 17/03/2016.
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