Histology Lecture 06

Brown Fat contains many blood vessels but white fat contains no blood vessels

• True

• False

What type of adipose tissue tends to increase as humans age?

• Brown Adipose tissue

• White adipose tissue

• Unilocular adipose tissue

• Multiocular adipose tissue

• Both B and C

A unilocular adipocyte contains one large vacuole full of lipid

• True

• False

Uniocular adipocytes contain many mitochondria compared to multilocular adipocytes

• True

• False

Which one of the following is true of a unilocular adipocyte?

• Many small lipid vacuoles

• Stores glycogen

• Many mitochondria

• Secretes Leptin

• Generates heat

Which of the following is not true about brown fat?

• Generates heat

• Multiple lipid vacuoles

• Converts fatty acids to triglycerides

• Rich blood supply

• Many mitochondria

Adipocytes arise from which of these germ layers in the embryo?

• Endoderm

• Mesoderm

• Ectoderm