Reprogrammed Functional Brown Adipocytes Ameliorate Insulin Resistance and Dyslipidemia in Diet-Induced Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

Brown adipocytes (BAs) play important roles in body temperature regulation, energy balance, and carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. Activities of BAs are remarkably diminished in obese and diabetic patients, providing possibilities of transplanting functional BAs resulting in therapeutic benefit. Her...

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Main Authors: Tsunao Kishida, Akika Ejima, Kenta Yamamoto, Seiji Tanaka, Toshiro Yamamoto, Osam Mazda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-10-01
Series:Stem Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213671115002416