Turning WAT into BAT: A review on regulators controlling the browning of white adipocytes

Bioscience Reports

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 711-719

  Lo, Kinyui Alice ^a   Sun, Lei ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Beige fat; Browning; Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR ); Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor ? coactivator 1 (PGC 1 ); PR domain containing 16 (PRDM16); White adipocytes

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 21; INSULIN; MICRORNA; MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR A; NATRIURETIC FACTOR; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR 2; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA; PR DOMAIN CONTAINING 16; STEROID RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXC2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BOX 15; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 4; HORMONE;

ADIPOGENESIS; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; BROWNING; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; HUMAN; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIPID METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADIPOCYTES, WHITE; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; ANIMALS; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONES; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84884840427     PISSN: 01448463     EISSN: 15734935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BSR20130046     Document Type: Review

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