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Sensory innervation of white adipose tissue
1Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
The American Journal of Physiology
|December 1, 1987
Abstract:
The presumption that sensory information does not arise from white adipose tissue was reevaluated using the neuroanatomical tracer, "true blue." Fluorescent cell bodies were observed in dorsal root ganglia of rats after tracer was implanted into inguinal or dorsal subcutaneous fat depots. Sensory information from adipose tissue may play an important role in the regulation of regional and total body fat mass.