The origin and definition of brite versus white and classical brown adipocytes

A Classical Brown Adipose Tissue mRNA Signature Partly Overlaps with Brite in the Supraclavicular Region of Adult Humans

(2013) Naja Zenius Jespersen et al.   Cell Metabolism

Brown Fat Activation Mediates Cold-Induced Thermogenesis in Adult Humans in Response to a Mild Decrease in Ambient Temperature

(2013) Kong Y. Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

Increased Oxygen Consumption in Human Adipose Tissue From the “Brown Adipose Tissue” Region

(2013) Guy H. E. J. Vijgen et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

Brown-fat paucity due to impaired BMP signalling induces compensatory browning of white fat

(2013) Tim J. Schulz et al.   NATURE

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

Evidence for two types of brown adipose tissue in humans

(2013) Martin E Lidell et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Anatomical localization, gene expression profiling and functional characterization of adult human neck brown fat

(2013) Aaron M Cypess et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Brown Adipose Tissue as a Regulator of Energy Expenditure and Body Fat in Humans

(2013) Masayuki Saito   Diabetes & Metabolism Journal

Brown adipose tissue functions in humans

(2012) Kirsi A. Virtanen et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY OF LIPIDS

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

Ephedrine activates brown adipose tissue in lean but not obese humans

(2012) A. L. Carey et al.   DIABETOLOGIA

The adipose organ at a glance

(2012) S. Cinti   Disease Models & Mechanisms

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

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

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

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

Fiber Types in Mammalian Skeletal Muscles

(2011) Stefano Schiaffino et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

(2010) Andrea Frontini et al.   Cell Metabolism

Skeletal muscle: Energy metabolism, fiber types, fatigue and adaptability

(2010) Håkan Westerblad et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

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

Beige Can Be Slimming

(2010) J. Ishibashi et al.   SCIENCE

Recruitment of brown fat and conversion of white into brown adipocytes: Strategies to fight the metabolic complications of obesity?

(2009) Dominique Langin   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY OF LIPIDS

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

Have we entered the brown adipose tissue renaissance?

(2009) E. Ravussin et al.   Obesity Reviews

Identification of White Adipocyte Progenitor Cells In Vivo

(2008) Matthew S. Rodeheffer et al.   CELL

Extreme Makeover: Converting One Cell into Another

(2008) Qiao Zhou et al.   Cell Stem Cell

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