Fatty acid metabolism and the basis of brown adipose tissue function

@article{CaldernDomnguez2015FattyAM,
  title={Fatty acid metabolism and the basis of brown adipose tissue function},
  author={Mar{\'i}a Calder{\'o}n-Dom{\'i}nguez and Joan Francesc Mir and Raquel Fucho and Min{\'e}ia Weber and Dolors Serra and Laura Herrero},
  journal={Adipocyte},
  year={2015},
  volume={5},
  pages={98 - 118}
}
ABSTRACT Obesity has reached epidemic proportions, leading to severe associated pathologies such as insulin resistance, cardiovascular disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes. Adipose tissue has become crucial due to its involvement in the pathogenesis of obesity-induced insulin resistance, and traditionally white adipose tissue has captured the most attention. However in the last decade the presence and activity of heat-generating brown adipose tissue (BAT) in adult humans has been rediscovered… 
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