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A Novel Therapeutic Approach to Treating Obesity through Modulation of TGFβ Signaling

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Cardiac natriuretic peptides act via p38 MAPK to induce the brown fat thermogenic program in mouse and human adipocytes

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A PGC1-α-dependent myokine that drives brown-fat-like development of white fat and thermogenesis

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A Modified Protocol to Maximize Differentiation of Human Preadipocytes and Improve Metabolic Phenotypes

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Efficient iPS Cell Production with the MyoD Transactivation Domain in Serum-Free Culture

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The Implication of Brown Adipose Tissue for Humans

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Epigenetic Memory and Preferential Lineage-Specific Differentiation in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived from Human Pancreatic Islet Beta Cells

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The Changed Metabolic World with Human Brown Adipose Tissue: Therapeutic Visions

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Chronic Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor γ (PPARγ) Activation of Epididymally Derived White Adipocyte Cultures Reveals a Population of Thermogenically Competent, UCP1-containing Adipocytes Molecularly Distinct from Classic Brown Adipocytes

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Human Multipotent Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Differentiate into Functional Brown Adipocytes

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PRDM16 controls a brown fat/skeletal muscle switch

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New role of bone morphogenetic protein 7 in brown adipogenesis and energy expenditure

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