Fat, Energy and Mammalian Survival

摘要: Adipose tissue plays a critical role in mammalian life history strategies, serving as an organ for the storage of food and energy, source heat water thermal insulation. The energy roles are especially important allowing animals to survive shortages stresses associated with competition mates, territorial defense, gestation lactation, accomplish migrations. composition, cellularity anatomical site adipose depots mammal can influence both amount fat stored its availability usefulness any given situation. fatty acids complex lipids tissue, blood vessels, nerves brain change response ambient temperature low body temperatures during hibernation. Early nutrition may number cells developed by mammal, thus affect ability adversity. Desert species develop localized which will not interfere regulation, while cold environments use their extensive superficial layers