Recruitment of brown fat and conversion of white into brown adipocytes: Strategies to fight the metabolic complications of obesity?

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids

Volumn 1801, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 372-376

  Langin, Dominique ^a,b,c,d  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Adipose tissue; Brown adipocyte; Fatty acid; Obesity; White fat cell

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID;

ADIPOCYTE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL POPULATION; HUMAN; LIPID STORAGE; METABOLISM; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

ADIPOCYTES, BROWN; ADIPOCYTES, WHITE; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY;

EID: 76049130230     PISSN: 13881981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2009.09.008     Document Type: Review

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