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Infographic: The Omentum’s Role in Health and Disease
Belly fat helps fight infection, but is also a common site of metastasis.
Infographic: The Omentum’s Role in Health and Disease
Infographic: The Omentum’s Role in Health and Disease
Belly fat helps fight infection, but is also a common site of metastasis.
Belly fat helps fight infection, but is also a common site of metastasis.
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Belly Fat Has a Role to Play in Fighting Infections
Selene Meza-Perez and Troy D. Randall
| Oct 1, 2018
| 9 min read
Hanging in front of the abdomen like an apron, the depot of visceral fat known as the omentum helps regulate immune responses.
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