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TISSUE & CELL
Volume 71, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
DOI: 10.1016/j.tice.2021.101583
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Dermal fat; Adipose papillae; Reactive oxygen species; sWAT; PPAR-gamma
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Dermal white adipose tissue (dWAT) is emerging as an auxiliary fat district in the skin, with its role and regulatory functions yet to be thoroughly investigated, suggesting a potentially more significant role in skin physiology.
The role of dermal white adipose tissue (dWAT) has emerged in the biomedical science as an ancillary fat district in the derma without a defined and distinct function respect to the subcutaneous adipose tissue (sWAT). Despite some evidence describing dWAT as an immune-competent compartment, particularly engaged in wound repair, very few reports dealing with dWAT has elucidated its major modulatory role within the skin biology. Whereas an increasing bulk of evidence allows researcher to describe the main activity of sWAT, in humans dWAT is not properly a separated fat compartment and therefore scarcely considered in the scientific debate. Due to its strategic position between epidermis and sWAT, dermal fat might play a much more intriguing role than expected. This review tries to shed light on this issue, by expanding the debate about a possible role of dWAT in skin physiology.
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