Increased inflammation, oxidative stress and mitochondrial respiration in brown adipose tissue from obese mice

M Alcalá, M Calderon-Dominguez, E Bustos… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Obesity is associated with severe metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, insulin
resistance, cardiovascular disease and some forms of cancer. The pathophysiology of …

A single day of high-fat diet feeding induces lipid accumulation and insulin resistance in brown adipose tissue in mice

EN Kuipers, NM Held… - American Journal …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Brown adipose tissue (BAT) catabolizes glucose and fatty acids to produce heat and thereby
contributes to energy expenditure. Long-term high-fat diet (HFD) feeding results in so-called …

Role of brown adipose tissue in modulating adipose tissue inflammation and insulin resistance in high-fat diet fed mice

K Shankar, D Kumar, S Gupta, S Varshney… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Obesity results in the chronic activation of innate immune system and subsequently sets in
diabetes. Aim of the study was to investigate the immunometabolic role of brown adipose …

The whitening of brown fat and its implications for weight management in obesity

I Shimizu, K Walsh - Current obesity reports, 2015 - Springer
Systemic inflammation resulting from dysfunction of white adipose tissue (WAT) accelerates
the pathologies of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. In contrast to WAT, brown adipose …

Aerobic exercise promotes the functions of brown adipose tissue in obese mice via a mechanism involving COX2 in the VEGF signaling pathway

P Fu, R Zhu, J Jia, Y Hu, C Wu, P Cieszczyk… - Nutrition & …, 2021 - Springer
Background High-fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity causes immune cells to infiltrate adipose
tissue, leading to chronic inflammation and metabolic syndrome. Brown adipose tissue …

Mitochondrial dysfunction in obesity

AH de Mello, AB Costa, JDG Engel, GT Rezin - Life sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
Obesity leads to various changes in the body. Among them, the existing inflammatory
process may lead to an increase in the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and …

Metabolic remodeling of white adipose tissue in obesity

TD Cummins, CR Holden… - American Journal …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
Adipose tissue metabolism is a critical regulator of adiposity and whole body energy
expenditure; however, metabolic changes that occur in white adipose tissue (WAT) with …

Activation of pattern recognition receptors in brown adipocytes induces inflammation and suppresses uncoupling protein 1 expression and mitochondrial respiration

J Bae, CJ Ricciardi, D Esposito… - … of Physiology-Cell …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
Pattern recognition receptors (PRR), Toll-like receptors (TLR), and nucleotide-
oligomerization domain-containing proteins (NOD) play critical roles in mediating …

Mechanisms of impaired brown adipose tissue recruitment in obesity

M Alcalá, M Calderon-Dominguez, D Serra… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Brown adipose tissue (BAT) dissipates energy to produce heat. Thus, it has the potential to
regulate body temperature by thermogenesis. For the last decade, BAT has been in the …

The impact of oxidative stress on adipose tissue energy balance

PM Masschelin, AR Cox, N Chernis… - Frontiers in physiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Overnutrition and sedentary activity reinforce the growing trend of worldwide obesity, insulin
resistance, and type 2 diabetes. However, we have limited insight into how food intake …