Brown and beige fat: Development, function and therapeutic potential

Nature Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1252-1263

  Harms, Matthew ^a   Seale, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 DINITROPHENOL; 2,4 THIAZOLIDINEDIONE DERIVATIVE; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 8B; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; FAT DROPLET; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 21; GROWTH FACTOR; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA; PRDM16 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 2; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 3; PPARGC1A PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOGENESIS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; BEIGE ADIPOSE TISSUE; BETA ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; COLD EXPOSURE; DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXERCISE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID STORAGE; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLIC REGULATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION UNCOUPLING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROADIPOCYTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERMOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; METABOLIC DISEASES; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADIPOCYTES; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; HUMANS; METABOLIC DISEASES; MICE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84887431711     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.3361     Document Type: Review

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