How to Use fat cell in a Sentence

fat cell

noun
  • What this will do is shrink fat cells by getting rid of the edema (swelling) in the tissues.
    Jane Carlson, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2017
  • That’s in part because cannabinoids are stored in fat cells.
    Molly Sullivan, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
  • One study found that the sun's rays may shrink the fat cells beneath your top layer of skin when exposed to the sun.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 9 July 2024
  • Over the course of a few weeks, the dead fat cells are absorbed and eliminated as waste.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2019
  • Lipid bilayers, made up of two sheets of fat cells, form the cell membrane.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Over the next two to three months, the frozen fat cells break apart and are flushed out through your lymphatic system.
    Nicole Catanese, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Oct. 2015
  • The fat cells are then disposed and can never return to the area they were suctioned from.
    Bryce Gruber, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Mar. 2016
  • The rest of the excess glucose gets stored in our fat cells as body fat, again with the assistance of insulin.
    Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 23 May 2019
  • What marbled the meat had not come from a butchered pig but a living hog whose fat cells had been sampled and grown in a vat.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Once damaged, the fat cells are swept away by the body's lymphatic system.
    Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 18 Apr. 2018
  • What Is the Function of Leptin? Leptin is a hormone that’s released by fat cells and processed in the brain.
    Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 3 Dec. 2024
  • When a person uses delta-8, it is absorbed into the bloodstream and then stored in fat cells.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The size of these fat cells in mice given the drug shrunk 30% after 10 days of treatment compared to those given a placebo.
    Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2018
  • In males, estrogen is produced in the testes and, similar to women, in fat cells and adrenal glands.
    Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • And now, scientists have discovered a new kind of fat cell.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2024
  • At the same time, radiofrequency waves help to heat up fat, killing fat cells and allowing your body to flush them out.
    Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 13 Mar. 2023
  • There are two forms of fat cells, brown cells and white cells, and each plays a different role in our metabolism.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 24 June 2019
  • The new paper suggests that in fat cells, these changes linger even after a person loses weight.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
  • But scientists began to notice that some beige fat cells didn’t have UCP1 at all.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2024
  • When under stress, the fat cells break down, releasing a blitz of cannabinoids into the bloodstream.
    Molly Sullivan, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Its role is to dictate whether glucose is used, stored in muscles and the liver, or put into fat cells to save for later.
    Hannah Coates, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Its role is to dictate whether glucose is used, stored in muscles and the liver, or put into fat cells to save for later.
    Hannah Coates, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2024
  • By three weeks post-jab, new blood vessels are taking root and fat cells are moving into the matrix, Chnari says.
    Jolene Edgar, Allure, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The little chambers in our skin that house fat cells look different between the sexes.
    Sara Chodosh, Popular Science, 30 Dec. 2019
  • My fat cells are still dealing with the ramifications of it.
    Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 3 June 2023
  • The rapid contractions also cause your muscles to release chemicals that tell fat cells in the area to break down.
    Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 13 June 2019
  • When these fat cells are filled with fat, leptin is supposed to send signals to the appetite control center in the brain reducing the urge to eat.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 22 Mar. 2018
  • During this process, known as lipolysis, the HGH turns the fat cell into energy.
    Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The distribution of fat cells throughout your body affects how long delta THC lingers in your system.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Together, the findings suggest fat cells resist efforts to slim down.
    Christie Wilcox, science.org, 19 Nov. 2024

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