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NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY
卷 15, 期 6, 页码 405-424出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/nrd.2016.31
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- Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (PRIN)
- European Community (EU FP7 project DIABAT) [HEALTH-F2-2011-278373]
New therapeutic and preventative strategies are needed to address the growing obesity epidemic. In animal models, brown adipose tissue activation and the associated heat produced contribute to countering obesity and the accompanying metabolic abnormalities. Adult humans also have functional brown fat. Here, we present and discuss the concepts of murine and human white adipose tissue plasticity and the transdifferentiation of white adipocytes into brown adipocytes. Human visceral adipocytes-which are crucial contributors to the burden of obesity and its complications-are particularly susceptible to such transdifferentiation. Therefore, we propose that this process should be a focus of anti-obesity research. Approved drugs that have browning properties as well as future drugs that target molecular pathways involved in white-to-brown visceral adipocyte transdifferentiation may provide new avenues for obesity therapy.
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