Adipose tissue biology in 2014: Advances in our understanding of adipose tissue homeostasis

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 71-72

  Stern, Jennifer H ^a   Scherer, Philipp E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; BEIGE ADIPOCYTE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LIPID METABOLISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY;

EID: 84961371956     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2014.219     Document Type: Review

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