ArticleNature communications2023
Cold-activated brown fat-derived extracellular vesicle-miR-378a-3p stimulates hepatic gluconeogenesis in male mice.
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- New Mediators in the Crosstalk between Different Adipose Tissues.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Pooled it
- Blood Metabolomic Signatures of 1-Hour Glucose Predict Cardiometabolic Risk.Circulation research · 2026Trial
- Circulating succinate changes during acute cold exposure are not related with brown adipose tissue in humans.Journal of physiology and biochemistry · 2026Trial
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- Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Local and Systemic Communication in Metabolic Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- The adipose tissue-plaque crosstalk: omics profiling of perivascular adipose tissues for understanding plaque stability.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2026Review
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- Brown fat-specific RNA labelling reveals a network of inter-organ communication by secreted microRNAs.Nature metabolism · 2026Article
- Lactylation modification in extracellular vesicles: A key regulator of cellular communication.iScience · 2026Review
- BAT-derived miR-378a-3p facilitates endothelial angiogenic function and promotes wound healing.JCI insight · 2026Article
- Extracellular vesicles enriched with mitochondrial components from intermittently cold-exposed adipose tissue drive metabolically active adipose regeneration via miR-296-3p.Materials today. Bio · 2026Article
- Transcriptome profile of Min pig muscle response to cold stress.Veterinary and animal science · 2026Article
- Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles From Mouse Brown Adipose Tissue Secretome Using Size-Exclusion Chromatography.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026Article
- Proteomic and Super-Resolution Analyses of Murine Brown Adipocyte-Derived Extracellular Vesicles.Journal of extracellular biology · 2026Article
- Circulating miR-378a-3p attenuates pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis via BAT-lung crosstalk.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2026Article
- Angiopep-2-engineered extracellular vesicles derived from spinal cord injury-responsive brown adipose tissue for targeted neuroinflammation modulation.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2026Article
- Exercise alleviates cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease mice via skeletal muscle-derived extracellular vesicles that enhance plaque clearance by microglia.Nature aging · 2026Article
- Cold exposure-inducedActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2026Article
- Pathophysiological Roles of Obesity-Induced Alterations in Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Adipose Tissue and Adipocytes.Current obesity reports · 2026Review
- Exercise-conditioned extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer's disease: a multi-organ signaling network linking peripheral adaptation to brain pathology.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
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Abstract
During cold exposure, activated brown adipose tissue (BAT) takes up a large amount of circulating glucose to fuel non-shivering thermogenesis and defend against hypothermia. However, little is known about the endocrine function of BAT controlling glucose homoeostasis under this thermoregulatory challenge. Here, we show that in male mice, activated BAT-derived extracellular vesicles (BDEVs) reprogram systemic glucose metabolism by promoting hepatic gluconeogenesis during cold stress. Cold exposure facilitates the selective packaging of miR-378a-3p-one of the BAT-enriched miRNAs-into EVs and delivery into the liver. BAT-derived miR-378a-3p enhances gluconeogenesis by targeting p110α. miR-378 KO mice display reduced hepatic gluconeogenesis during cold exposure, while restoration of miR-378a-3p in iBAT induces the expression of gluconeogenic genes in the liver. These findings provide a mechanistic understanding of BDEV-miRNA as stress-induced batokine to coordinate systemic glucose homoeostasis. This miR-378a-3p-mediated interorgan communication highlights a novel endocrine function of BAT in preventing hypoglycemia during cold stress.
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