Recent advance in brown adipose physiology and its therapeutic potential

Experimental and Molecular Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Lee, Yun Hee ^a   Jung, Young Suk ^b   Choi, Dalwoong ^c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Brown adipose tissue (BAT); Obesity; Progenitors; White adipose tissue (WAT)

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC METABOLISM; BETA ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; LIPOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PROADIPOCYTE; REVIEW; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOGENESIS; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADIPOCYTES; ADIPOGENESIS; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; HUMANS; OBESITY;

EID: 84896866771     PISSN: 12263613     EISSN: 20926413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emm.2013.163     Document Type: Review

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