Brown adipose tissue—a translational perspective

AC Carpentier, DP Blondin, F Haman… - Endocrine …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Brown adipose tissue (BAT) displays the unique capacity to generate heat through
uncoupled oxidative phosphorylation that makes it a very attractive therapeutic target for …

AMPK as a therapeutic target for treating metabolic diseases

EA Day, RJ Ford, GR Steinberg - Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2017 - cell.com
The AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a central regulator of multiple metabolic
pathways and may have therapeutic importance for treating obesity, insulin resistance, type …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Human brown adipocyte thermogenesis is driven by β2-AR stimulation

DP Blondin, S Nielsen, EN Kuipers, MC Severinsen… - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Stimulation of brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis in humans has emerged as an
attractive target to improve metabolic health. Pharmacological stimulations targeting the β 3 …

Brown adipose tissue energy metabolism in humans

AC Carpentier, DP Blondin, KA Virtanen… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The demonstration of metabolically active brown adipose tissue (BAT) in humans primarily
using positron emission tomography coupled to computed tomography (PET/CT) with the …

Mechanistic links between obesity, diabetes, and blood pressure: role of perivascular adipose tissue

SN Saxton, BJ Clark, SB Withers… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Obesity is increasingly prevalent and is associated with substantial cardiovascular risk.
Adipose tissue distribution and morphology play a key role in determining the degree of …

[HTML][HTML] Lack of adipocyte AMPK exacerbates insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis through brown and beige adipose tissue function

EP Mottillo, EM Desjardins, JD Crane, BK Smith… - Cell metabolism, 2016 - cell.com
Brown (BAT) and white (WAT) adipose tissues play distinct roles in maintaining whole-body
energy homeostasis, and their dysfunction can contribute to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease …

Short-term cold acclimation recruits brown adipose tissue in obese humans

MJW Hanssen, AAJJ van der Lans, B Brans… - Diabetes, 2016 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Recruitment of brown adipose tissue (BAT) has emerged as a potential tool to combat
obesity and associated metabolic complications. Short-term cold acclimation has been …

Brown Adipose Reporting Criteria in Imaging STudies (BARCIST 1.0): recommendations for standardized FDG-PET/CT experiments in humans

KY Chen, AM Cypess, MR Laughlin, CR Haft, HH Hu… - Cell metabolism, 2016 - cell.com
Human brown adipose tissue (BAT) presence, metabolic activity, and estimated mass are
typically measured by imaging [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in response to cold …

FGF21 lowers plasma triglycerides by accelerating lipoprotein catabolism in white and brown adipose tissues

C Schlein, S Talukdar, M Heine, AW Fischer, LM Krott… - Cell metabolism, 2016 - cell.com
FGF21 decreases plasma triglycerides (TGs) in rodents and humans; however, the
underlying mechanism or mechanisms are unclear. In the present study, we examined the …