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Adipose Tissue in Fish and Its Importance in Obesity Research

| İbrahim Cengizler |

Year:2022| Vol:1| No:3| PP 97-103
Abstract
Adipose tissue, which has very important functions in all vertebrates, consists of reticular and loose connective tissue. It exists in two different formations as white and brown adipose tissue. Fish with poikolothermia do not have brown adipose tissue. Adipocytes forming adipose tissue are of mesenchymal origin. Two factors have led to increased research on adipose tissue in fish in recent years; The first of these is that excessive oil accumulation in fish produced in fish farming threatens the health of the fish and causes deterioration in the quality of the product. For this reason, feeding and adipose tissue in aquaculture are investigated in many ways. The second factor is to reveal the relationship of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases with adipose tissue in humans. The use of fish, especially zebrafish (Danio rerio), as a vertebrate model in these studies, has become very common in recent years. Adipogenesis, in fish as in all vertebrates, is the process of expression of a complex transcriptional network that includes fat uptake, transport, synthesis, and mature adipocyte biochemical functions, and hormonal adipokines oscillations. In this review article, adipose tissue in fish is discussed and its use as a model for obesity research in humans is discussed.

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Adipose; Fish; Obesity; Biomedical
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