Ovarian cancer often goes undetected for a long time. In seven out of 10 patients, the tumor has already formed secondary ...

Ovarian cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer, a type that usually remains undiagnosed for a while in many ...

Call it what you like: Beer belly, protruding gut, spare tire orother creative names. What you’re referring to is the visibleconsequence of the omentum. Often described as a “fatty apron,” the omentum ...

(LOS ANGELES) – July 1, 2022 - In their recent publication in Cell Reports, a team of scientists, led by Xiling Shen, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the expression of eNOS and iNOS mRNA and protein in adipose tissue from subcutaneous (s.c.) and omental adipose tissue of obese subjects. DESIGN: Subcutaneous and omental ...

Troy Randall, an immunologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the omentum guy. He thinks the “apron of fat” that hugs your abdomen doesn’t get enough attention — while we’re all ...

In their recent publication in Cell Reports, a team of scientists, led by Xiling Shen, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI), has demonstrated the ...

A major consequence of obesity is the enormous expansion of and enhanced inflammatory response seen in visceral adipose tissue. I hypothesized that the expression of inflammatory markers in visceral ...

In a new study, it was observed that in rats with kidney disease, functioning of the kidney improved when the organ was fused with the omentum, a fatty fold of tissue that lies close to the kidney and ...

In their recent work to be published on March 7, 2009 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology, Dr. Singh and his colleagues from the Cook County Hospital in Chicago (USA) first activated the omentum ...

Belly fat has been singled out for many years as an enemy of health. It's been linked to heart risk, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes. But abdominal fat may have a benefit after all, actually ...

Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2008;5(7):366-367. The clinical finding of malabsorption after massive resection of the small intestine is known as short-bowel syndrome. The remaining intestine ...