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SUBMITTER: Oh JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3465748 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oh Jee-Eun JE Cho Yoon Mi YM Kwak Su-Nam SN Kim Jae-Hyun JH Lee Kyung Won KW Jung Hyosan H Jeong Seong-Whan SW Kwon Oh-Joo OJ
Experimental & molecular medicine 20120901 9
Brown adipose tissue is specialized to burn lipids for thermogenesis and energy expenditure. Second-generation antipsychotics (SGA) are the most commonly used drugs for schizophrenia with several advantages over first-line drugs, however, it can cause clinically-significant weight gain. To reveal the involvement of brown adipocytes in SGA-induced weight gain, we compared the effect of clozapine, quetiapine, and ziprasidone, SGA with different propensities to induce weight gain, on the differenti ...[more]