The evolving view of thermogenic adipocytes—ontogeny, niche and function

F Shamsi, CH Wang, YH Tseng - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2021 - nature.com
The worldwide incidence of obesity and its sequelae, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, have
reached pandemic levels. Central to the development of these metabolic disorders is …

An update on brown adipose tissue biology: a discussion of recent findings

RC Gaspar, JR Pauli, GI Shulman… - American Journal of …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Brown adipose tissue (BAT) has been encouraged as a potential treatment for obesity and
comorbidities due to its thermogenic activity capacity and contribution to energy expenditure …

[HTML][HTML] The thermogenic activity of adjacent adipocytes fuels the progression of ccRCC and compromises anti-tumor therapeutic efficacy

G Wei, H Sun, K Dong, L Hu, Q Wang, Q Zhuang, Y Zhu… - Cell metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) preferentially invades into perinephric adipose
tissue (PAT), a process associated with poor prognosis. However, the detailed mechanisms …

The GIP receptor activates futile calcium cycling in white adipose tissue to increase energy expenditure and drive weight loss in mice

X Yu, S Chen, JB Funcke, LG Straub, V Pirro… - Cell Metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
Obesity is a chronic disease that contributes to the development of insulin resistance, type 2
diabetes (T2D), and cardiovascular risk. Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide …

New developments in the biology of fibroblast growth factors

DM Ornitz, N Itoh - WIREs mechanisms of disease, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family is composed of 18 secreted signaling proteins
consisting of canonical FGFs and endocrine FGFs that activate four receptor tyrosine …

SIRT7 suppresses energy expenditure and thermogenesis by regulating brown adipose tissue functions in mice

T Yoshizawa, Y Sato, SU Sobuz, T Mizumoto… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Brown adipose tissue plays a central role in the regulation of the energy balance by
expending energy to produce heat. NAD+-dependent deacylase sirtuins have widely been …

[HTML][HTML] Exercise training remodels inguinal white adipose tissue through adaptations in innervation, vascularization, and the extracellular matrix

P Nigro, M Vamvini, J Yang, T Caputo, LL Ho… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Inguinal white adipose tissue (iWAT) is essential for the beneficial effects of exercise training
on metabolic health. The underlying mechanisms for these effects are not fully understood …

Fgf9 regulates bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell fate and bone-fat balance in osteoporosis by PI3K/AKT/Hippo and MEK/ERK signaling

M Chen, H Liang, M Wu, H Ge, Y Ma… - International …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Bone-fat balance is crucial to maintain bone homeostasis. As common progenitor cells of
osteoblasts and adipocytes, bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) are delicately …

Hydroxy-α-sanshool from the fruits of Zanthoxylum bungeanum Maxim. promotes browning of white fat by activating TRPV1 to induce PPAR-γ deacetylation

Q Zhang, CX He, LY Wang, D Qian, DD Tang, SN Jiang… - Phytomedicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Accumulating evidence suggested increasing energy expenditure is a feasible
strategy for combating obesity, and browning of white adipose tissue (WAT) to promote …

m6A mRNA methylation in brown fat regulates systemic insulin sensitivity via an inter-organ prostaglandin signaling axis independent of UCP1

L Xiao, DF De Jesus, CW Ju, JB Wei, J Hu… - Cell Metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
Brown adipose tissue (BAT) regulates systemic metabolism by releasing signaling lipids. N
6-methyladenosine (m 6 A) is the most prevalent and abundant post-transcriptional mRNA …