brown fat

基本解釋

Identifying the presence of brown fat is one thing, but activating it to burn more glucose is another.
確定棕色脂肪的存在是一回事，但激活它讓它燃燒更多葡萄糖是另一回事。
Because rodents have a lot of brown fat, it's very difficult to make them obese, even when you force-feed them in labs.
由于嚙齒類動物有許多褐色脂肪，就很難使它們胖起來。即使你在實驗室強行給它們喂食也不行。
The scientists then transplanted the cells into mice, where they produced brown fat tissue.
科學家們接著將這些細胞轉移到老鼠生產的棕色脂肪組織中。
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tissue composed of a type of fat cell that dissipates as heat most of the energy released when food is oxidized brown adipose tissue. It is present in hibernating animals and human babies and is thought to be important in adult weight control