Inhibition of Notch signaling promotes browning of white adipose tissue and ameliorates obesity

Nature Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 911-918

  Bi, Pengpeng ^a   Shan, Tizhong ^a   Liu, Weiyi ^a   Yue, Feng ^a   Yang, Xin ^a   Liang, Xin Rong ^a   Wang, Jinghua ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Carlesso, Nadia ^b   Liu, Xiaoqi ^a,c   Kuang, Shihuan ^a,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTES, BROWN; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN SECRETASES; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CELLS, CULTURED; DIBENZAZEPINES; DIET, HIGH-FAT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J RECOMBINATION SIGNAL SEQUENCE-BINDING PROTEIN; ION CHANNELS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OBESITY; RECEPTOR, NOTCH1; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84905740317     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.3615     Document Type: Article

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