Endocrine Abstracts

Bone marrow adipose tissue (BMAT) fills the majority of bone marrow space in adult long bones. Despite its wide presence the functions of BMAT in normal energy metabolism, bone turnover or in disease are largely unknown. Amount of BMAT does increase with age, upon failure of hematopoietic bone marrow and in anorexia nervosa but its amount also positively correlates with that of visceral fat. Work in animal models has suggested that BMAT would share characteristics with brown a...