Synonyms for brown fat
brown fat

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1. brown fat

   Synonyms:
   Brown adipose tissue, textus adiposus fuscus

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1. Carole Sztalryd:

   [Brown fat cells] are an attractive therapeutic target for weight loss, and for anti-obesity or anti-type 2 Diabetes (T2D) therapies.

2. Lisanne Blauw:

   In warmer climates, brown fat may be less activated.

3. Antonio Vidal-Puig:

   If you can increase the brown fat in obese and diabetic people then you can improve their situation.

4. Lisanne Blauw:

   The function of brown fat tissue is to burn fat to generate heat, which is important to prevent a decline in body temperature during cold exposure. Therefore, we hypothesize that brown fat plays a role in the mechanism underlying the association between outdoor temperature and diabetes, in warmer climates, brown fat may be less activated, which may causally lead to insulin resistance and diabetes.

5. Aaron Cypess:

   We're certainly excited about the energy-burning capacity, but we're thinking about the more broad physiological basis of what brown fat may be able to do.