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b. Brown adipose tissue
• It is a highly specialized form of adipose tissue found in newborn
mammals, rodents and some hibernating animals, where it plays an
important part in body temperature regulation.
• The brown adipose tssue is more vascular than the white ones.
• The brown adipocytes are smaller than white one, the nuclei are oval,
eccentricity located and surrounded by a significant amount of strongly
acidophilic cytoplasm.
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