New powers of brown fat: fighting the metabolic syndrome

Jan Nedergaard; Tore Bengtsson; Barbara Cannon

doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2011.02.009

New powers of brown fat: fighting the metabolic syndrome

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

Authors

Jan Nedergaard¹, Tore Bengtsson, Barbara Cannon

Affiliation

¹ The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm 106 91, Sweden. jan@metabol.su.se

PMID: 21356513
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2011.02.009

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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