The browning of white adipose tissue: Some burning issues

Cell Metabolism

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 396-407

  Nedergaard, Jan ^a   Cannon, Barbara ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

2,4 DINITROPHENOL; ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE 1; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; ROSIGLITAZONE; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1; 2,4 THIAZOLIDINEDIONE DERIVATIVE; ANTIOBESITY AGENT; ION CHANNEL; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL UNCOUPLING PROTEIN;

ADIPOCYTE; ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; COLD EXPOSURE; COLD STRESS; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXERCISE; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; HEAT LOSS; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LIPID DIET; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION UNCOUPLING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; THERMOGENESIS; TISSUE METABOLISM; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; FOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; ANIMALS; ANTI-OBESITY AGENTS; FOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; THERMOGENESIS; THIAZOLIDINEDIONES;

EID: 84913586856     PISSN: 15504131     EISSN: 19327420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2014.07.005     Document Type: Review

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