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 …

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 …

Control of brown and beige fat development

W Wang, P Seale - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2016 - nature.com
Brown and beige adipocytes expend chemical energy to produce heat and are therefore
important in regulating body temperature and body weight. Brown adipocytes develop in …

Brown and beige fat: physiological roles beyond heat generation

S Kajimura, BM Spiegelman, P Seale - Cell metabolism, 2015 - cell.com
Since brown adipose tissue (BAT) dissipates energy through UCP1, BAT has garnered
attention as a therapeutic intervention for obesity and metabolic diseases including type 2 …

What we talk about when we talk about fat

ED Rosen, BM Spiegelman - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
There has been an upsurge of interest in the adipocyte coincident with the onset of the
obesity epidemic and the realization that adipose tissue plays a major role in the regulation …

Adipogenesis: a complex interplay of multiple molecular determinants and pathways

MA Ambele, P Dhanraj, R Giles, MS Pepper - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The formation of adipocytes during embryogenesis has been largely understudied.
However, preadipocytes appear to originate from multipotent mesenchymal stromal/stem …

Brown and beige fat: development, function and therapeutic potential

M Harms, P Seale - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
Adipose tissue, best known for its role in fat storage, can also suppress weight gain and
metabolic disease through the action of specialized, heat-producing adipocytes. Brown …

Adipose tissue browning and metabolic health

A Bartelt, J Heeren - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2014 - nature.com
Accumulation of excess white adipose tissue (WAT) has deleterious consequences for
metabolic health. The activation of brown adipose tissue (BAT), the primary organ for heat …

[HTML][HTML] Eosinophils and type 2 cytokine signaling in macrophages orchestrate development of functional beige fat

Y Qiu, KD Nguyen, JI Odegaard, X Cui, X Tian… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Beige fat, which expresses the thermogenic protein UCP1, provides a defense against cold
and obesity. Although a cold environment is the physiologic stimulus for inducing beige fat in …

Adaptive thermogenesis in adipocytes: is beige the new brown?

J Wu, P Cohen, BM Spiegelman - Genes & development, 2013 - genesdev.cshlp.org
One of the most promising areas in the therapeutics for metabolic diseases centers around
activation of the pathways of energy expenditure. Brown adipose tissue is a particularly …