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Postby BluTGI » Fri Feb 28, 2003 8:39 pm

1 Does a regular body cell create enzymes?
or rather Can it?

2 What cells surround fat cells.
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Postby sedm1000 » Sat Mar 01, 2003 11:39 am

1. Yes, lots.

2. The rest of your body. Think there is an individual blood supply to each cell. The rest will be connective tissue and lamina I`d imagine.
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Postby Pangloss » Sat Mar 01, 2003 7:08 pm

Hmm, those answers are only really half-useful.

1. Enzymes are proteins, which are produced in nearly every cell in the human body. More enzymes are produced in cells which (in aggregate) form those organs that use enzymes to carry out their functions. For example, the liver.

2. sedm100 was kindof right. There aren't strictly 'fat cells', though some have a greater need for glycerol and fatty acids. Fat (or triglycerides) are transported around the body via the lymphatic system, which is connected but separate to the blood vessels, whose watery blood is repelled by fat molecules.
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Postby BluTGI » Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:13 pm

i need a method to induce lipase into the blood stream in a method that it will not eat the fat that surrounds the heart. because that would take care of the world's weight problem.
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Postby sedm1000 » Tue Mar 04, 2003 8:14 pm

Pangloss wrote: Hmm, those answers are only really half-useful.


...but at least they are accurate!

What`s wrong with adipose tissue - and fat only in lymphatic!?!

BluTGI - There are a number of circulating lipases. That idea wouldn`t really work though, as all the real fat biochemistry goes on in adipose/liver/muscle. Better would simply be to make people eat better/less. There are biochemical approaches to this, e.g. leptins etc., but they are neither commercially available, nor even fully reasoned out.
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