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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: jun wu
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-39562 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Cell 20120712 2
Brown fat generates heat via the mitochondrial uncoupling protein UCP1, defending against hypothermia and obesity. Recent data suggest that there are two distinct types of brown fat: classical brown fat derived from a myf-5 cellular lineage and UCP1-positive cells that emerge in white fat from a non-myf-5 lineage. Here, we report the isolation of "beige" cells from murine white fat depots. Beige cells resemble white fat cells in having extremely low basal expression of UCP1, but, like classical ...[more]