9 min listen
Skin Fat Regulation: Edriss Yousuf
FromiBiology Videos
ratings:
Length:
18 minutes
Released:
May 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The fat layer in our skin has the ability to expand and shrink. Yet, the regulatory mechanisms for skin fat growth and shrinking are not well understood. In this Share Your Research Talk, Edriss Yousuf describes his thesis research on the regulation of skin fat. He discovered a non-immune function of regulatory T cells and showed that they can induce autophagy in skin fat cells to decrease their lipid droplet size. These findings have implications for scarring and scleroderma, disorders which are typically associated with reduced skin fat abundance.
Released:
May 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (92)
Manu Prakash: Scientific Curiosity: Finding Sublime in the Mundane: Manu Prakash always yearned to know the why and the how of things. As a boy in India, he spent endless hours playing outside with animals and making flammable artifacts in an abandoned lab in the basement of his home. by iBiology Videos