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SUBMITTER: Yang Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5061633 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Qiyuan Q Liang Xingwei X Sun Xiaofei X Zhang Lupei L Fu Xing X Rogers Carl J CJ Berim Anna A Zhang Shuming S Wang Songbo S Wang Bo B Foretz Marc M Viollet Benoit B Gang David R DR Rodgers Buel D BD Zhu Mei-Jun MJ Du Min M
Cell metabolism 20160915 4
Promoting brown adipose tissue (BAT) development is an attractive strategy for the treatment of obesity, as activated BAT dissipates energy through thermogenesis; however, the mechanisms controlling BAT formation are not fully understood. We hypothesized that as a master regulator of energy metabolism, AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) may play a direct role in the process and found that AMPKα1 (PRKAA1) ablation reduced Prdm16 expression and impaired BAT development. During early brown adipoge ...[more]