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Fat body, fat pad and adipose tissues in invertebrates and vertebrates: the nexus

The fat body in invertebrates was shown to participate in energy storage and homeostasis, apart from its other roles in immune mediation and protein synthesis to mention a few. Thus, sharing similar characteristics with the liver and adipose tissues in vertebrates. However, vertebrate adipose tissue...

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Autores principales: Azeez, Odunayo Ibraheem, Meintjes, Roy, Chamunorwa, Joseph Panashe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4005007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24758278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-511X-13-71