How to Use adipocyte in a Sentence

adipocyte

noun

• Instead, most of our body fat stores need to be sequestered in adipocytes.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Aug. 2026
• Fat is a vital class of molecules that every cell uses; our bodies store fat in special cells, adipocytes, that have many functions.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Aug. 2026
• The result is adipocytes accommodating larger lipid droplets – and increasing the size of these fat cells.
  — New Atlas, 25 Nov. 2025
• When the researchers knocked out adipogenin production in mice, both fat droplets and in turn fat cells were smaller, indicating that the protein plays a key role in determining the size of the lipid package being stored in adipocytes.
  — New Atlas, 25 Nov. 2025
• There, these cells promote the release of free fatty acids, which play crucial roles in metabolism, from adipocytes (fat cells) through a process called SAA3-dependent lipolysis.
  — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
• In the present study, the researchers used CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to screen thousands of genes in mouse fat cells, or adipocytes, to see which ones might produce microproteins that influence fat cell growth (proliferation) and fat storage.
  — New Atlas, 14 Aug. 2025