New Powers of Brown Fat: Fighting the Metabolic Syndrome

New Powers of Brown Fat: Fighting the Metabolic Syndrome

An understanding of the full powers of brown adipose tissue (BAT) is only successively being accumulated. In a paper in Nature Medicine, Bartelt et al. (2011) add further impressive aspects to the potential powers of BAT in the combat against the metabolic syndrome by demonstrating its vast capacity...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cell metabolism 2011-03, Vol.13 (3), p.238-240
Hauptverfasser: Nedergaard, Jan, Bengtsson, Tore, Cannon, Barbara
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:An understanding of the full powers of brown adipose tissue (BAT) is only successively being accumulated. In a paper in Nature Medicine, Bartelt et al. (2011) add further impressive aspects to the potential powers of BAT in the combat against the metabolic syndrome by demonstrating its vast capacity for triglyceride clearance and glucose disposal.
ISSN:1550-4131
1932-7420
1932-7420
DOI:10.1016/j.cmet.2011.02.009