white adipose tissue displays a morphology more closely resembling brown adipose tissue (eg. multilocular droplets, decreased lipid droplet size) including the emergence or brown or beige adipocytes in white adipose tissue; this may represent adaptation to increased thermogenic demand, exercise, injury (thermal injury), and/or disease (cancer)
Synonyms
Exact Synonyms:
WAT beiging
;
WAT browning
;
beiging of WAT
;
beiging of white adipose tissue
;
browning of WAT
;
browning of white adipose tissue
;
white adipose tissue browning