Human epicardial fat has a beige profile and contains higher type 2 innate lymphoid cells than subcutaneous fat.
Elisa DoukbiPatricia AncelAnne DutourAstrid SoghomonianShaista AhmedVictoria CastejonChristelle PiperoglouVlad GariboldiMarien LenoirEric LechevallierBastien Gondran-TellierRomain BoissierMikael EbboFrederic VelyBénédicte GaboritPublished in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2024)
This is the first study, to our knowledge, to provide a comparison between innate and adaptive lymphoid cells in human EAT. Further studies are ongoing to decipher whether these cells could be involved in EAT beiging.