How to Use fat cell in a Sentence

fat cell

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This causes fat cells to freeze, breaking cell walls and causing cell death (apoptosis).
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Research shows that fat cells in those who are sleep-deprived are less able to respond properly to insulin, which may lead to weight gain.
    — Karyn Repinski, Woman's Day, 23 Jan. 2019
  • It is targeted and focused to heat fat tissues underneath the skin and induce fat cell loss.
    — Melanie Savage, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2022
  • The rapid contractions also cause your muscles to release chemicals that signal fat cells in the area to break down.
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 13 June 2019
  • Coolsculpting works over a period of several months by destroying fat cells and at the same time contracting the skin over the area.
    — Dr. Carlos Wolf, miamiherald, 29 June 2018
  • There are other medical devices that use heat to destroy fat cells and get nice results.
    — Dr. Carlos Wolf, miamiherald, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Though the fat cells did seem to be moving themselves, their means of locomotion was unusual.
    — Douglas Quenqua, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Here’s why visceral fat cells are so important to your well-being.
    — New York Times, 11 June 2018
  • Because fat freezes at a warmer temperature than skin does, your skin is not damaged, yet ice crystals form within the fat cells.
    — Nicole Catanese, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Oct. 2015
  • Kybella is an injection that kills fat cells, thus reducing the bulge.
    — Dr. Carlos Wolf, miamiherald, 23 Apr. 2018

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