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A muscle protein at work in brown adipose tissue
Brown adipose tissue is a metabolically active organ that transfers energy from fat into heat. Heat production from BAT is activated whenever the organism needs extra heat, e.g. during cold-exposure, postnatally, during entry into a febrile state or during arousal from hibernation. Its main function is to maintain body temperature. For a long time, it was assumed that this tissue regresses with increasing age and is completely lost by the time a person reaches adulthood. But this view was refuted and the capacity to produce brown adipose tissue has been shown in adulthood 〈...〉
Original-Publication
Christen L, Broghammer H, Rapöhn I, et al. Myoglobin-mediated lipid shuttling increases adrenergic activation of brown and white adipocyte metabolism and is as a marker of thermogenic adipocytes in humans. Clin Transl Med. 2022; 12:e1108. https://doi.org/10.1002/ctm2.1108