Human BAT Possesses Molecular Signatures That Resemble Beige/Brite Cells

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

(2012) Jun Wu et al.   CELL

PPARγ agonists Induce a White-to-Brown Fat Conversion through Stabilization of PRDM16 Protein

(2012) Haruya Ohno 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

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

(2012) Alan Koncarevic et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

FGF21 regulates PGC-1  and browning of white adipose tissues in adaptive thermogenesis

(2012) f. M. Fisher et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

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

(2012) Marica Bordicchia et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

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

(2012) Pontus Boström et al.   NATURE

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

Protection from Obesity and Diabetes by Blockade of TGF-β/Smad3 Signaling

(2011) Hariom Yadav et al.   Cell Metabolism

Unequivocal identification of brown adipose tissue in a human infant

(2011) Houchun H. Hu et al.   JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

Changes in Brown Adipose Tissue in Boys and Girls during Childhood and Puberty

(2011) Vicente Gilsanz et al.   JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS

A critical appraisal of the prevalence and metabolic significance of brown adipose tissue in adult humans

(2010) Paul Lee et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

The emergence of cold-induced brown adipocytes in mouse white fat depots is determined predominantly by white to brown adipocyte transdifferentiation

(2010) G. Barbatelli et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

Human Brown Adipose Tissue

(2010) Sven Enerbäck   Cell Metabolism

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

Gene expression in human brown adipose tissue

(2010) Svensson   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Prdm16 determines the thermogenic program of subcutaneous white adipose tissue in mice

(2010) Patrick Seale et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Brown Adipose Tissue, Whole-Body Energy Expenditure, and Thermogenesis in Healthy Adult Men

(2010) Takeshi Yoneshiro et al.   Obesity

UCP1 Induction during Recruitment of Brown Adipocytes in White Adipose Tissue Is Dependent on Cyclooxygenase Activity

(2010) Lise Madsen et al.   PLoS One

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

(2010) A. Vegiopoulos et al.   SCIENCE

Proteome Differences between Brown and White Fat Mitochondria Reveal Specialized Metabolic Functions

(2009) Francesca Forner et al.   Cell Metabolism

UCP1 Ablation Induces Obesity and Abolishes Diet-Induced Thermogenesis in Mice Exempt from Thermal Stress by Living at Thermoneutrality

(2009) Helena M. Feldmann et al.   Cell 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

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

C/EBP  and the Corepressors CtBP1 and CtBP2 Regulate Repression of Select Visceral White Adipose Genes during Induction of the Brown Phenotype in White Adipocytes by Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor   Agonists

(2009) C. Vernochet et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Initiation of myoblast to brown fat switch by a PRDM16–C/EBP-β transcriptional complex

(2009) Shingo Kajimura et al.   NATURE

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 and Importance of Brown Adipose Tissue in Adult Humans

(2009) Aaron M. Cypess et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Regulation of the brown and white fat gene programs through a PRDM16/CtBP transcriptional complex

(2008) S. Kajimura et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

PRDM16 controls a brown fat/skeletal muscle switch

(2008) Patrick Seale et al.   NATURE