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Neither brown nor white

Barbara Cannon () and Jan Nedergaard
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Barbara Cannon: Barbara Cannon and Jan Nedergaard are at The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-106 91, Sweden.
Jan Nedergaard: Barbara Cannon and Jan Nedergaard are at The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-106 91, Sweden.

Nature, 2012, vol. 488, issue 7411, 286-287

Abstract: Fat cells are usually thought of as being either energy-storing white fat cells or food-burning brown fat cells. The identification of a third type of fat cell in mice and humans might open up new avenues for combating obesity.

Date: 2012
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