{"id":161490,"date":"2023-04-03T16:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T21:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/study-provides-the-first-precise-insight-into-important-remodeling-processes-in-adipose-tissue"},"modified":"2023-04-03T16:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T21:24:18","slug":"study-provides-the-first-precise-insight-into-important-remodeling-processes-in-adipose-tissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/study-provides-the-first-precise-insight-into-important-remodeling-processes-in-adipose-tissue","title":{"rendered":"Study provides the first precise insight into important remodeling processes in adipose tissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-provides-the-first-precise-insight-into-important-remodeling-processes-in-adipose-tissue3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fat molecules serve as energy storage for fat cells. They consist of three fatty acids attached to a backbone of glycerol. They are therefore also called triglycerides. It has long been suspected that molecules do not remain unchanged during their storage period. Instead, they are regularly broken down and reassembled\u2014a process called \u201ctriglyceride cycling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But is this assumption even true, and if so: What would that be good for? \u201cUntil now, there has been no real answer to these questions,\u201d explains Prof. Dr. Christoph Thiele of the LIMES Institute at the University of Bonn. \u201cIt\u2019s true that there has been indirect evidence of this permanent reconstruction for the past 50 years. However, direct evidence of this has so far been lacking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The problem: To prove that <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/triglycerides\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">triglycerides<\/a> are broken down, and fatty acids modified and reincorporated into new molecules, one would need to track their transformation as they travel through the body. Yet there are thousands of different forms of triglycerides in each cell. Keeping track of individual fatty acids is therefore extremely difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fat molecules serve as energy storage for fat cells. They consist of three fatty acids attached to a backbone of glycerol. They are therefore also called triglycerides. It has long been suspected that molecules do not remain unchanged during their storage period. Instead, they are regularly broken down and reassembled\u2014a process called \u201ctriglyceride cycling.\u201d But [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}