Follistatin promotes adipocyte differentiation, browning, and energy metabolism

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 375-384

  Braga, Melissa ^a   Reddy, Srinivasa T ^b   Vergnes, Laurent ^b   Pervin, Shehla ^a,b   Grijalva, Victor ^b   Stout, David ^b   David, John ^b   Li, Xinmin ^b   Tomasian, Venina ^b   Reid, Christopher B ^a   Norris, Keith C ^b   Devaskar, Sherin U ^b   Reue, Karen ^b   Singh, Rajan ^a,b  

^a CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown fat; Energy expenditure; Mitochondria; Mouse embryonic fibroblast; Myostatin; Uncoupling protein 1

Indexed keywords

FOLLISTATIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL RESPIRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLYCATION; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROADIPOCYTE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; THERMOGENESIS; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

BROWN FAT; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOUSE EMBRYONIC FIBROBLAST; MYOSTATIN; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1;

ADIPOCYTES; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; CARBONYL CYANIDE P-TRIFLUOROMETHOXYPHENYLHYDRAZONE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLD TEMPERATURE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; FOLLISTATIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROTON IONOPHORES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THERMOGENESIS;

EID: 84894734673     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: 15397262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M039719     Document Type: Article

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