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HomeQ: Question for smart Danish medical students–it pertains to hypertrophy and hyperplasia!Japanese sumo wrestlers are very obese. Is the extra weight of sumo wrestlers due to hyperplasia or hypertrophy of adipocytes?
Q: Question for smart Danish medical students–it pertains to hypertrophy and hyperplasia!Japanese sumo wrestlers are very obese. Is the extra weight of sumo wrestlers due to hyperplasia or hypertrophy of adipocytes?
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I would say that it is both hyperplasia and hypertrophy. Sumo wrestlers are trained from childhood and therefore they number of adiopocytes are increased. In adulthood the number is stabile. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18454136
I would say that it is both hyperplasia and hypertrophy. Sumo wrestlers are trained from childhood and therefore they number of adiopocytes are increased. In adulthood the number is stabile. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18454136