ReviewFrontiers in endocrinology2022
An update on brown adipose tissue and obesity intervention: Function, regulation and therapeutic implications.
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- Multidisciplinary Therapy to Target Obesity and Its Complications in Adult Population: A Narrative Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Review
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- Mesenteric Adipose Tissue as a Modulator of Intestinal Inflammation: Mechanistic Insights and Model Systems in Crohn's Disease.European journal of immunology · 2026Review
- Identification of Bioactive Medium Chain Fatty Acids (CAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Fueling or Fighting Cancer? The Thermogenic Paradox of Brown Adipose Tissue.Current obesity reports · 2026Review
- Angiopep-2-engineered extracellular vesicles derived from spinal cord injury-responsive brown adipose tissue for targeted neuroinflammation modulation.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2026Article
- Transplantation of Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Inhibitor-Treated Human Brown Adipocytes Promotes Adipose Tissue Activation in High-Fat-Diet-Fed Nude Mice.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Cross-Talk Between Signaling and Transcriptional Networks Regulating Thermogenesis-Insights into Canonical and Non-Canonical Regulatory Pathways.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
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- 11-Oxygenated Androgens Inhibit Brown Adipose Tissue Differentiation.Endocrinology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Overweight and obesity have become a world-wide problem. However, effective intervention approaches are limited. Brown adipose tissue, which helps maintain body temperature and contributes to thermogenesis, is dependent on uncoupling protein1. Over the last decade, an in-creasing number of studies have found that activating brown adipose tissue and browning of white adipose tissue can protect against obesity and obesity-related metabolic disease. Brown adipose tissue has gradually become an appealing therapeutic target for the prevention and re-versal of obesity. However, some important issues remain unresolved. It is not certain whether increasing brown adipose tissue activity is the cause or effect of body weight loss or what the risks might be for sympathetic nervous system-dependent non-shivering thermogenesis. In this review, we comprehensively summarize approaches to activating brown adipose tissue and/or browning white adipose tissue, such as cold exposure, exercise, and small-molecule treatment. We highlight the functional mechanisms of small-molecule treatment and brown adipose tissue transplantation using batokine, sympathetic nervous system and/or gut microbiome. Finally, we discuss the causality between body weight loss induced by bariatric surgery, exercise, and brown adipose tissue activity.
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