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. 2022 Oct 4;34(10):1428-1430.
doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2022.09.009.

Starving cancer into submission by activating BAT

Mohammed K Hankir  1 , Annett Hoffmann  2 , Florian Seyfried  2
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Starving cancer into submission by activating BAT

Mohammed K Hankir et al. Cell Metab. .
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Abstract

Activated brown adipose tissue (BAT) consumes copious amounts of circulating nutrients to fuel thermogenesis. Recently writing in Nature, Seki et al. show that this property can be leveraged to limit glucose availability for cancer cells and slow tumor growth, thereby adding cancer to the growing list of diseases that can potentially be treated by activating BAT.

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