Brown and beige fat: Physiological roles beyond heat generation

Cell Metabolism

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 546-559

  Kajimura, Shingo ^a   Spiegelman, Bruce M ^b   Seale, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 21; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 5; NATRIURETIC FACTOR; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; PROSTAGLANDIN; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1; UNTRANSLATED RNA; VASCULOTROPIN; ION CHANNEL; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; UCP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANTIDIABETIC ACTIVITY; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BEIGE ADIPOCYTE; BEIGE ADIPOSE TISSUE; BROWN ADIPOCYTE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; BURN; CACHEXIA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; COLD EXPOSURE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; EXERCISE; FAT MASS; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HEAT; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIPID HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROADIPOCYTE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WHITE ADIPOCYTE; ANIMAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; ION CHANNELS; METABOLIC DISEASES; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OBESITY; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1;

EID: 84943402947     PISSN: 15504131     EISSN: 19327420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2015.09.007     Document Type: Review

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