Igniting adipocyte thermogenesis

Raghav Jain; Judith Simcox

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2022.02.024

Igniting adipocyte thermogenesis

Cell. 2022 Mar 17;185(6):941-943. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.02.024.

Authors

Raghav Jain¹, Judith Simcox²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
² Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Electronic address: jsimcox@wisc.edu.

PMID: 35303425
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.02.024

Abstract

Maintenance of body temperature is intimately tied to energy expenditure and body weight regulation. In this issue of Cell, Li, Wang, et al. discovered that localized hyperthermia induces the thermogenic program to increase energy expenditure and decrease body weight in mice and humans.

Published by Elsevier Inc.

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MeSH terms

Adipocytes*
Animals
Body Weight
Energy Metabolism / physiology
Mice
Thermogenesis* / physiology