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Modelling adipose tissue expansion in zebrafish
2020-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Obesity has been classified as a global epidemic by the World Health Organisation, with 13% of the world’s adult population estimated to be obese in 2016. An increased risk of multiple diseases is associated with obesity, including cardiovascular disease and type two diabetes. Obesity itself is defined as an excess of white adipose tissue (AT) and a body mass index of over 30 kg/m2. The excess adipose tissue prese...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 95e59986-5289-5ffa-bd37-300d8f111b2e
- DOI
- 10.7488/era/470