Turning WAT into BAT gets rid of fat

Nature Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1102-1103

  Chen, Hubert C ^a   Farese, Robert V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE; ACYL COENZYME A; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; GENE PRODUCT; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; INITIATION FACTOR 4E BINDING PROTEIN 1; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE 1 R2BETA; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; DRUG TARGETING; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD INTAKE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OBESITY; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034770290     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1001-1102     Document Type: Article

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