Brown adipose tissue in the buccal fat pad during infancy

Brown adipose tissue in the buccal fat pad during infancy

The buccal fat pad (BFP) is an encapsulated mass of adipose tissue thought to enhance the sucking capabilities of the masticatory muscles during infancy. To date, no conclusive evidence has been provided as to the composition of the BFP in early postnatal life. The purpose of this study was to exami...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one 2014-02, Vol.9 (2), p.e89533-e89533
Hauptverfasser: Ponrartana, Skorn, Patil, Shilpa, Aggabao, Patricia C, Pavlova, Zdena, Devaskar, Sherin U, Gilsanz, Vicente
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Sprache:eng
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Adipocytes
Adipose tissue
Adipose tissue (brown)
Adipose Tissue, Brown - cytology
Adipose Tissue, White - cytology
Adiposity
Age
Birth weight
Body fat
Children & youth
Diabetes
Female
Females
Fetuses
Gender
Gestational age
Girls
Hospitals
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Infants
Jaw - cytology
Magnetic resonance
Magnetic resonance imaging
Male
Mastication
Mathematics
Medicine
Multiple regression analysis
Muscles
Neonates
Newborn babies
Newborn infants
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Nutrition
Pediatrics
Proteins
Regression analysis
Rodents
Studies
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Zusammenfassung:The buccal fat pad (BFP) is an encapsulated mass of adipose tissue thought to enhance the sucking capabilities of the masticatory muscles during infancy. To date, no conclusive evidence has been provided as to the composition of the BFP in early postnatal life. The purpose of this study was to examine whether the BFP of neonates and infants is primarily composed of white adipose tissue (WAT) or brown adipose tissue (BAT). The percentage of fat in the BFP in 32 full-term infants (16 boys and 16 girls), aged one day to 10.6 months, was measured using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) determinations of fat fraction. BFP fat fraction increased with age (r = 0.67; P
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0089533