Bi-directional interconversion of brite and white adipocytes

Characterization of the adipocyte cellular lineage in vivo

(2013) Ryan Berry et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Beige Adipocytes Are a Distinct Type of Thermogenic Fat Cell in Mouse and Human

(2012) Jun Wu et al.   CELL

PTEN Loss in the Myf5 Lineage Redistributes Body Fat and Reveals Subsets of White Adipocytes that Arise from Myf5 Precursors

(2012) Joan Sanchez-Gurmaches et al.   Cell Metabolism

In Vivo Identification of Bipotential Adipocyte Progenitors Recruited by β3-Adrenoceptor Activation and High-Fat Feeding

(2012) Yun-Hee Lee et al.   Cell Metabolism

The adipose organ of obesity-prone C57BL/6J mice is composed of mixed white and brown adipocytes

(2012) A. Vitali et al.   JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Human BAT Possesses Molecular Signatures That Resemble Beige/Brite Cells

(2012) Louis Z. Sharp et al.   PLoS One

Recruited vs. nonrecruited molecular signatures of brown, “brite,” and white adipose tissues

(2011) Tomas B. Waldén et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

Tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase 1 (TIMP1) controls adipogenesis in obesity in mice and in humans

(2011) B. Meissburger et al.   DIABETOLOGIA

Adipose tissue remodeling and obesity

(2011) Kai Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Alternatively activated macrophages produce catecholamines to sustain adaptive thermogenesis

(2011) Khoa D. Nguyen et al.   NATURE

Forming functional fat: a growing understanding of adipocyte differentiation

(2011) Ana G. Cristancho et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Distribution and Development of Brown Adipocytes in the Murine and Human Adipose Organ

(2010) Andrea Frontini et al.   Cell Metabolism

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

(2010) Jan Nedergaard et al.   Cell Metabolism

Brown adipose tissue in humans

(2010) Kirsi A Virtanen et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN LIPIDOLOGY

N-cadherin is dispensable for pancreas development but required for β-cell granule turnover

(2010) Jenny K. Johansson et al.   GENESIS

Identification of inducible brown adipocyte progenitors residing in skeletal muscle and white fat

(2010) T. J. Schulz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cyclooxygenase-2 Controls Energy Homeostasis in Mice by de Novo Recruitment of Brown Adipocytes

(2010) A. Vegiopoulos et al.   SCIENCE

Transdifferentiation properties of adipocytes in the adipose organ

(2009) Saverio Cinti   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

High Incidence of Metabolically Active Brown Adipose Tissue in Healthy Adult Humans: Effects of Cold Exposure and Adiposity

(2009) M. Saito et al.   DIABETES

Cannabinoid type 1 receptor blockade induces transdifferentiation towards a brown fat phenotype in white adipocytes

(2009) N. Perwitz et al.   DIABETES OBESITY & METABOLISM

The presence of UCP1 demonstrates that metabolically active adipose tissue in the neck of adult humans truly represents brown adipose tissue

(2009) Maria Cristina Zingaretti et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

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

(2009) Natasa Petrovic et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Functional Brown Adipose Tissue in Healthy Adults

(2009) Kirsi A. Virtanen et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Cold-Activated Brown Adipose Tissue in Healthy Men

(2009) Wouter D. van Marken Lichtenbelt et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Identification of White Adipocyte Progenitor Cells In Vivo

(2008) Matthew S. Rodeheffer et al.   CELL

Establishment of a preadipocyte cell line derived from mature adipocytes of GFP transgenic mice and formation of adipose tissue

(2008) Hiroyuki Nobusue et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Adipocyte metabolism and obesity: Fig. 1.

(2008) Alan D. Attie et al.   JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH

PRDM16 controls a brown fat/skeletal muscle switch

(2008) Patrick Seale et al.   NATURE

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY: How Now, Brown Fat?

(2008) M. A. Lazar   SCIENCE