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. 2011 Mar 2;13(3):238-40.
doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2011.02.009.

New powers of brown fat: fighting the metabolic syndrome

Jan Nedergaard  1 , Tore Bengtsson, Barbara Cannon
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New powers of brown fat: fighting the metabolic syndrome

Jan Nedergaard et al. Cell Metab. .
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Abstract

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.

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  • Brown adipose tissue activity controls triglyceride clearance.
    Bartelt A, Bruns OT, Reimer R, Hohenberg H, Ittrich H, Peldschus K, Kaul MG, Tromsdorf UI, Weller H, Waurisch C, Eychmüller A, Gordts PL, Rinninger F, Bruegelmann K, Freund B, Nielsen P, Merkel M, Heeren J. Bartelt A, et al. Nat Med. 2011 Feb;17(2):200-5. doi: 10.1038/nm.2297. Epub 2011 Jan 23. Nat Med. 2011. PMID: 21258337