Reassessing human adipose tissue

AM Cypess - New England Journal of Medicine, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Reassessing Human Adipose Tissue Adipose tissue can more than double in mass and
then return to baseline. This review discusses the functional roles of human white and brown …

Obesity, adipose tissue and vascular dysfunction

M Koenen, MA Hill, P Cohen, JR Sowers - Circulation research, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Overweight and obesity
are strongly associated with comorbidities such as hypertension and insulin resistance …

Brown adipose tissue is associated with cardiometabolic health

T Becher, S Palanisamy, DJ Kramer, M Eljalby… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
White fat stores excess energy, whereas brown and beige fat are thermogenic and dissipate
energy as heat. Thermogenic adipose tissues markedly improve glucose and lipid …

The cellular and functional complexity of thermogenic fat

P Cohen, S Kajimura - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Brown and beige adipocytes are mitochondria-enriched cells capable of dissipating energy
in the form of heat. These thermogenic fat cells were originally considered to function solely …

Browning of the white adipose tissue regulation: New insights into nutritional and metabolic relevance in health and diseases

SA Machado, G Pasquarelli-do-Nascimento… - Nutrition & …, 2022 - Springer
Adipose tissues are dynamic tissues that play crucial physiological roles in maintaining
health and homeostasis. Although white adipose tissue and brown adipose tissue are …

Diabetes mellitus and its metabolic complications: the role of adipose tissues

L Dilworth, A Facey, F Omoruyi - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Many approaches have been used in the effective management of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
A recent paradigm shift has focused on the role of adipose tissues in the development and …

Adipose tissue fibrosis in obesity: etiology and challenges

G Marcelin, EL Gautier, K Clément - Annual review of physiology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Obesity is a chronic and progressive process affecting whole-body energy balance and is
associated with comorbidity development. In addition to increased fat mass, obesity induces …

The evolving view of thermogenic adipocytes—ontogeny, niche and function

F Shamsi, CH Wang, YH Tseng - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2021 - nature.com
The worldwide incidence of obesity and its sequelae, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, have
reached pandemic levels. Central to the development of these metabolic disorders is …

Chronic mirabegron treatment increases human brown fat, HDL cholesterol, and insulin sensitivity

AE O'Mara, JW Johnson, JD Linderman… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
BACKGROUND Mirabegron is a β3-adrenergic receptor (β3-AR) agonist approved only for
the treatment of overactive bladder. Encouraging preclinical results suggest that β3-AR …

Adipocyte-derived lactate is a signalling metabolite that potentiates adipose macrophage inflammation via targeting PHD2

T Feng, X Zhao, P Gu, W Yang, C Wang, Q Guo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Adipose tissue macrophage (ATM) inflammation is involved with meta-inflammation and
pathology of metabolic complications. Here we report that in adipocytes, elevated lactate …