brown fat cell

基本解釋

"What we show in this paper is kind of a big shock. We show that brown fat is derived from a muscle-like cell, and that brown fat and white fat are completely different, " he said.
“我們在這篇文章中發(fā)表的是一個大發(fā)現，我們發(fā)現褐色脂肪來源于一種肌肉樣細胞，與褐色脂肪和白色脂肪截然不同，”他說。
“Brown fat is one of the body’s natural defenses against obesity, ” said cell biologist Bruce Spiegelman of Harvard Medical School, who co-authored the paper published Wednesday in Nature.
“灰色脂肪是一種人類抵御肥胖的一種天然保護，”哈佛醫(yī)學院的細胞生物學家Bruce Spiegelman說，他也是周四發(fā)表在Nature上的那篇文章的作者之一。
kajimura-ebat-11The fat is brown because it contains extra blood vessels and mitochondria, the energy factories of the cell.
這種脂肪細胞因為有更多的血管和具有細胞能量工廠之稱的線粒體，所以看起來是灰色的。