Ablation of LGR4 Promotes Energy Expenditure by Driving White-To-Brown Fat Switch

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1455-1463

  Wang, Jiqiu ^a,d   Liu, Ruixin ^a,d   Wang, Feng ^b,d   Hong, Jie ^a   Li, Xiaoying ^a   Chen, Maopei ^a   Ke, Yingying ^a   Zhang, Xianfeng ^a   Ma, Qinyun ^a   Wang, Rui ^a   Shi, Juan ^a   Cui, Bin ^a   Gu, Weiqiong ^a   Zhang, Yifei ^a   Zhang, Zhiguo ^a   Wang, Weiqing ^a   Xia, Xuefeng ^b   Liu, Mingyao ^c   Ning, Guang ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI SECOND MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; LGR4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOGENESIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; C3H MOUSE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE; YOUNG ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEK293;

ADIPOCYTES; ADIPOGENESIS; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, OBESE; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893371365     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2867     Document Type: Article

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