Neither brown nor white

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

(2012) Jun Wu et al.   CELL

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

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

Neither fat nor flesh

(2008) Barbara Cannon et al.   NATURE

PRDM16 controls a brown fat/skeletal muscle switch

(2008) Patrick Seale et al.   NATURE