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ReviewAdipocyte2018

Loading and firing the brown adipocyte.

Mohammed K Hankir

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Review in Adipocyte, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Mohammed K Hankira Department of Experimental Surgery , University Hospital Wuerzburg , Wuerzburg , Bavaria , Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is specialized to both store and expend chemical energy making it an ideal therapeutic target for various metabolic diseases. Fatty acids derived from lipid droplets within brown adipocytes acting on mitochondrial uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) were long thought to be essential for non-shivering thermogenesis. Here, the roles of white adipose tissue and the liver in the provision of fuel to BAT as part of a coordinated response to temperature and dietary challenges are described. UCP1-independent modes of brown adipocyte heat production are also highlighted. A model that accommodates the findings obtained so far is further presented in which according to the conditions imposed on brown adipocytes, the relative contributions of circulating lipids and glucose for their normal function varies. Gaining deeper insight into the molecular processes which poise brown adipocytes to protect against whole-body thermal and energy imbalance represents a promising future area of metabolic research.

Indexed as

Adipocytes, BrownAdipose Tissue, BrownAdipose Tissue, WhiteAnimalsCarnitineFatty AcidsGlucoseHumansUncoupling Protein 1acylcarnitineCarnitineFatty AcidsGlucoseUncoupling Protein 1Acylcarnitinesbrown adipose tissuefatty acidsglucoselipolysisliverthermogenesisuncoupling protein 1white adipose tissue

Identifiers

PMID29271697
PMCPMC5915016

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