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Emergence during development of the white-adipocyte cell phenotype is independent of the brown-adipocyte cell phenotype.
The Biochemical journal - 1 Jun 2001
Moulin K, Truel N, André M, Arnauld E, Nibbelink M, Cousin B, Dani C, Pénicaud L, Casteilla L
Abstract excerpt
In mammals, two types of adipose tissue are present, brown and white. They develop sequentially, as brown fat occurs during late gestation whereas white fat grows mainly after birth. However, both tissues have been shown to have great plasticity. Thus an apparent transformation of brown fat into...
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