Recent advances in brown adipose tissue biology

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 31, 2014, Pages 4030-4040

  Shen, Yanyan ^a,b   Liu, Xiaomeng ^b,c   Dong, Meng ^b,c   Lin, Jun ^b,c   Zhao, Qianwei ^b,c   Lee, Hyuek Jong ^b   Jin, Wanzhu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Anti obesity; Batokine; Beige adipocyte; Brown adipose tissue; Energy regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907861110     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-014-0386-3     Document Type: Article

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