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Divergent phenotype of rat thoracic and abdominal perivascular adipose tissues.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology - 1 Apr 2013
Padilla Jaume, Jenkins Nathan T, Vieira-Potter Victoria J, Laughlin M Harold
Abstract excerpt
Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) is implicated as a source of proatherogenic cytokines. Phenotypic differences in local PVAT depots may contribute to differences in disease susceptibility among arteries and even regions within an artery. It has been proposed that PVAT around the abdominal and thoracic aorta shares characteristics of white and brown adipose tissue (BAT), respectively; however, a detailed...
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