MECHANISMS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY: White, brown and pink adipocytes: the extraordinary plasticity of the adipose organ

An endocrine role for brown adipose tissue?

(2013) Joan Villarroya et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

RETRACTED: Betatrophin: A Hormone that Controls Pancreatic β Cell Proliferation

(2013) Peng Yi et al.   CELL

Obesity Activates a Program of Lysosomal-Dependent Lipid Metabolism in Adipose Tissue Macrophages Independently of Classic Activation

(2013) Xiaoyuan Xu et al.   Cell Metabolism

Loss of PPARγ expression in mammary secretory epithelial cells creates a pro-breast tumorigenic environment

(2013) Anthony J. Apostoli et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER

Recruited brown adipose tissue as an antiobesity agent in humans

(2013) Takeshi Yoneshiro et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Cold acclimation recruits human brown fat and increases nonshivering thermogenesis

(2013) Anouk A.J.J. van der Lans et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Obese adipocytes show ultrastructural features of stressed cells and die of pyroptosis

(2013) Antonio Giordano et al.   JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH

Bi-directional interconversion of brite and white adipocytes

(2013) Matthias Rosenwald et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Characterization of the adipocyte cellular lineage in vivo

(2013) Ryan Berry et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Tracking adipogenesis during white adipose tissue development, expansion and regeneration

(2013) Qiong A Wang et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Evidence for two types of brown adipose tissue in humans

(2013) Martin E Lidell et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Hypoxia and Adipose Tissue Function and Dysfunction in Obesity

(2013) Paul Trayhurn   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Fat Depots, Free Fatty Acids, and Dyslipidemia

(2013) Jon Ebbert et al.   Nutrients

BMP8B Increases Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis through Both Central and Peripheral Actions

(2012) Andrew J. Whittle et al.   CELL

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

(2012) Jun Wu et al.   CELL

Zfp423 Expression Identifies Committed Preadipocytes and Localizes to Adipose Endothelial and Perivascular Cells

(2012) Rana K. Gupta et al.   Cell Metabolism

The Vascular Endothelium of the Adipose Tissue Gives Rise to Both White and Brown Fat Cells

(2012) Khanh-Van Tran et al.   Cell Metabolism

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

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

Brown adipose tissue regulates glucose homeostasis and insulin sensitivity

(2012) Kristin I. Stanford et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Brown adipose tissue oxidative metabolism contributes to energy expenditure during acute cold exposure in humans

(2012) Véronique Ouellet et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

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

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

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

(2012) Pontus Boström et al.   NATURE

Time course of histomorphological changes in adipose tissue upon acute lipoatrophy

(2012) I. Murano et al.   NUTRITION METABOLISM AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

The adipose organ: white-brown adipocyte plasticity and metabolic inflammation

(2012) A. Smorlesi et al.   Obesity Reviews

Elf5, hormones and cell fate

(2012) Heather J. Lee et al.   TRENDS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

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

New Powers of Brown Fat: Fighting the Metabolic Syndrome

(2011) Jan Nedergaard et al.   Cell Metabolism

Mammary Development and Breast Cancer: The Role of Stem Cells

(2011) C. Ercan et al.   CURRENT MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Brown adipose tissue activity controls triglyceride clearance

(2011) Alexander Bartelt et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

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

Hepatic FGF21 Expression Is Induced at Birth via PPARα in Response to Milk Intake and Contributes to Thermogenic Activation of Neonatal Brown Fat

(2010) Elayne Hondares et al.   Cell Metabolism

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

(2010) Andrea Frontini et al.   Cell Metabolism

Outdoor Temperature, Age, Sex, Body Mass Index, and Diabetic Status Determine the Prevalence, Mass, and Glucose-Uptake Activity of18F-FDG-Detected BAT in Humans

(2010) Veronique Ouellet et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

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

Transdifferentiation properties of adipocytes in the adipose organ

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

Adipocyte Turnover: Relevance to Human Adipose Tissue Morphology

(2009) E. Arner et al.   DIABETES

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

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

Morphological and immunohistochemical features of brown adipocytes and preadipocytes in a case of human hibernoma

(2009) M. Manieri et al.   NUTRITION METABOLISM AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Reversible physiological transdifferentiation in the adipose organ

(2009) Saverio Cinti   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NUTRITION SOCIETY

In Vivo Physiological Transdifferentiation of Adult Adipose Cells

(2009) Rita De Matteis et al.   STEM CELLS

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

(2009) Christian Elabd et al.   STEM CELLS

Brown adipose tissue demonstrating intense FDG uptake in a patient with mediastinal pheochromocytoma

(2008) Ichiei Kuji et al.   ANNALS OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE

Triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

(2008) Patrick McBride   Current Atherosclerosis Reports

Noradrenergic parenchymal nerve fiber branching after cold acclimatisation correlates with brown adipocyte density in mouse adipose organ

(2008) I. Murano et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Dead adipocytes, detected as crown-like structures, are prevalent in visceral fat depots of genetically obese mice

(2008) I. Murano et al.   JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH

PRDM16 controls a brown fat/skeletal muscle switch

(2008) Patrick Seale et al.   NATURE

White Fat Progenitor Cells Reside in the Adipose Vasculature

(2008) W. Tang et al.   SCIENCE