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Brown and beige adipose tissues: phenotype and metabolic potential in mice and men.
Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) - 1 Feb 2018
Chechi Kanta, van Marken Lichtenbelt Wouter, Richard Denis
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With the recent rediscovery of brown fat in adult humans, our outlook on adipose tissue biology has undergone a paradigm shift. While we attempt to identify, recruit, and activate classic brown fat stores in humans, identification of beige fat has also raised the possibility of browning our white fat stores. Whether such transformation of human white fat depots can be achieved to enhance the whole body oxidative...
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