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Adipose tissue metabolism in 2012: Adipose tissue plasticity and new therapeutic targets
1University of Gothenburg, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, Sweden. sven.enerback@medgen.gu.se
Nature Reviews. Endocrinology
|January 9, 2013
Abstract:
2012 has been a rewarding year for adipocyte research. A new type of brown-like adipocyte—the beige adipocyte—and irisin, a previously unknown hormone that stimulates the formation of such cells, have been discovered. A bipotential adipocyte progenitor giving rise to both brown and white adipocytes has also been identified.

