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NATURE MEDICINE
Volume 19, Issue 10, Pages 1252-1263Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nm.3361
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- National Institute of General Medicine Sciences, US National Institutes of Health [DP2OD007288]
- Searle Scholars Award
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Adipose tissue, best known for its role in fat storage, can also suppress weight gain and metabolic disease through the action of specialized, heat-producing adipocytes. Brown adipocytes are located in dedicated depots and express constitutively high levels of thermogenic genes, whereas inducible 'brown-like' adipocytes, also known as beige cells, develop in white fat in response to various activators. The activities of brown and beige fat cells reduce metabolic disease, including obesity, in mice and correlate with leanness in humans. Many genes and pathways that regulate brown and beige adipocyte biology have now been identified, providing a variety of promising therapeutic targets for metabolic disease.
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