Traveling from the hypothalamus to the adipose tissue: The thermogenic pathway

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is a specialized tissue critical for non-shivering thermogenesis producing heat through mitochondrial uncoupling; whereas white adipose tissue (WAT) is responsible of energy storage in the form of triglycerides. Another type of fat has been described, the beige adipose tis...

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Main Authors: Cristina Contreras, Rubén Nogueiras, Carlos Diéguez, Kamal Rahmouni, Miguel López
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-08-01
Series:Redox Biology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231717301568

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