Neither fat nor flesh

Barbara Cannon and Jan Nedergaard
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Barbara Cannon: Barbara Cannon and Jan Nedergaard are at the Wenner-Gren Institute, Arrhenius Laboratories F3, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. barbara.cannon@wgi.su.se
Jan Nedergaard: Barbara Cannon and Jan Nedergaard are at the Wenner-Gren Institute, Arrhenius Laboratories F3, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. barbara.cannon@wgi.su.se

Nature, 2008, vol. 454, issue 7207, 947-948

Abstract: In mammals, white adipose tissue stores fat, whereas brown adipose tissue burns fat. Brown adipocytes have a common origin with muscle cells, which could help explain their unusual function.

Date: 2008
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