Fat cells directly sense temperature to activate thermogenesis

Adaptive thermogenesis in adipocytes: Is beige the new brown?

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TRPV4 Is a Regulator of Adipose Oxidative Metabolism, Inflammation, and Energy Homeostasis

(2012) Li Ye et al.   CELL

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

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Mild heat stress induces mitochondrial biogenesis in C2C12 myotubes

(2011) Chien-Ting Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

β-Adrenergic Receptor Blockade Does Not Inhibit Cold-Induced Thermogenesis in Humans: Possible Involvement of Brown Adipose Tissue

(2011) Sander L. J. Wijers et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

Inducible lineage tracing of Pax7-descendant cells reveals embryonic origin of adult satellite cells

(2010) Christoph Lepper et al.   GENESIS

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

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

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

PRDM16 controls a brown fat/skeletal muscle switch

(2008) Patrick Seale et al.   NATURE