Editorial: Brown Adipose Tissue: From Heat Production in Rodents to Metabolic Health in Humans

Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2021 Jul 26:12:739065. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2021.739065. eCollection 2021.

Maria Chondronikola^{1

2}, Alexander Bartelt^{3

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6}, Antonio Vidal-Puig^{7

8}, Kirsi A Virtanen^{9

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¹ Department of Nutrition, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States.
² Department of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
³ Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
⁴ German Center for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany.
⁵ Institute for Diabetes and Cancer, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
⁶ Department of Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States.
⁷ University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Institute of Metabolic Science, Medical Research Council, Metabolic Diseases Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
⁸ Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
⁹ Turku PET Centre, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.
¹⁰ Department of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
¹¹ Department of Endocrinology and Clinical Nutrition, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland.

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Keywords: adipose tissue; adipose tissue beigeing; brown; metabolism and obesity; thermogenesis.

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