About this Research Topic
Understanding how different dietary patterns, foods, nutrients, and bioactive compounds directly affect white and brown adipose tissue function is essential to promote strategies to reduce the morbimortality rates from obesity and its comorbidities. The expansion of white adipose tissue promotes a myriad of metabolic effects, including increased inflammation and insulin resistance that, in the long term, can trigger type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Even though there is some evidence that nutrients, such as saturated fatty acids, can directly affect white adipose tissue, data regarding the effects of nutrients and bioactive compounds on adipose tissue function are still scarce. Moreover, recent data indicate that some nutrients, especially bioactive compounds, could promote adipose tissue browning. However, how these bioactive compounds could benefit human brown and white adipose tissues remains to be explored.
This research aims to gather data from experimental and human studies investigating the effects of dietary patterns, food items, nutrients, and bioactive compounds in white and brown adipose tissues. The manuscripts should provide novel and crucial information to help understand how diet directly affects adipose tissue metabolism. In vitro and in vivo studies and relevant reviews and meta-analyses will be considered for publication. In addition, the authors are encouraged to submit translational research focusing on the mechanistic effects of specific nutrients and/or bioactive compounds in adipose tissue and how they affect the cardiometabolic risk, especially in humans.
Keywords: bioactive compounds, adipose tissue, white adipose tissue, brown adipose tissue, cardiovascular health
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