Adipose tissue: ability to respond to nerve stimulation in vitro.
Electrical stimulation of nerves to isolated rat and rabbit adipose tissue in vitro causes production of free fatty acids. Starvation increases the response. The response of white (epididymal) fat is prevented by sympathetic denervation. Direct evidence is provided showing that adipose tissue has the capacity to be an effector organ responsive to the nervous system.
D000273:Adipose Tissue; D000818:Animals; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004822:Epididymis; D005230:Fatty Acids, Nonesterified; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System
D005230:Fatty Acids, Nonesterified
ADIPOSE TISSUE