Fat cells with a sweet tooth

Wenfei Sun and Christian Wolfrum ()

Nature, 2019, vol. 565, issue 7738, 167-168

Abstract: Some fat cells convert energy into heat, so targeting them to induce weight loss is appealing. The discovery that a subset of the cells burns glucose, rather than both glucose and lipids, could improve our ability to do just that.

Keywords: Metabolism; Obesity; Physiology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1038/d41586-018-07739-6

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