News tagged with brown adipose tissue

Scientists advance understanding of human brown adipose tissue and grow new cells (w/ Video)

Joslin scientists report significant findings about the location, genetic expression and function of human brown adipose tissue (BAT) and the generation of new BAT cells. These findings, which appear in the April 2013 issue ...

Medical research Apr 22, 2013 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1 |

Team finds mechanism that regulates production of energy-burning brown fat

Joslin scientists have discovered a mechanism that regulates the production of brown fat, a type of fat which plays an important role in heat production and energy metabolism. The findings, which appear in the upcoming issue ...

Medical research Mar 13, 2013 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0 |

Brown adipose tissue beneficial for metabolism and glucose tolerance

Joslin Diabetes Center scientists have demonstrated that brown adipose tissue (BAT) has beneficial effects on glucose tolerance, body weight and metabolism. The findings, which may lead to new treatments for diabetes, appear ...

Medical research Dec 10, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Scientists discover mechanism that could reduce obesity

Approximately 68 percent of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, according to the National Cancer Institute, which puts them at greater risk for developing cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and a host of other chronic ...

Medical research Dec 05, 2012 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

Opioid receptors as a drug target for stopping obesity

Imagine eating all of the sugar and fat that you want without gaining a pound. Thanks to new research published in The FASEB Journal, the day may come when this is not too far from reality. That's because researchers from t ...

Overweight and Obesity Jul 31, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Fighting obesity with thermal imaging

Scientists at The University of Nottingham believe they've found a way of fighting obesity — with a pioneering technique which uses thermal imaging. This heat-seeking technology is being used to trace our reserves of ...

Pediatrics Jul 18, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Scientists identify protein that stimulates brown fat to burn calories

Scientists have identified a protein which regulates the activation of brown fat in both the brain and the body's tissues. Their research, which was conducted in mice, was published today, Friday 11 May, in the journal Cell.

Medical research May 10, 2012 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0 |

Prdm16: A novel gene important for craniofacial development

In the United States, a baby is born with a facial cleft every hour, of every day of the year! Such birth defects result from both gene mutations and environmental insults. PRDM16 is a transcription factor originally described ...

Medical research May 02, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 1 |

Brown fat burns calories in adult humans

Brown adipose tissue (often known as brown fat) is a specialized tissue that burns calories to generate body heat in rodents and newborn humans, neither of which shiver.

Medical research Jan 24, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Antibody injection promising for diabetes and obesity

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at Genetech Inc. in South San Francisco, California, led by molecular biologist Junichiro Sonoda, have discovered that a single injection of antibodies into obese diabetic mice provided a marked ...

Medical research Dec 16, 2011 | 5 / 5 (8) | 2 |

Finding may lead to treatments for obesity, type 2 diabetes

Activating a specialized type of fat, known as brown adipose tissue, may help combat obesity as well as result in better glucose control for type 2 diabetes, according to new research conducted by scientists at the UC Metabolic ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Oct 11, 2011 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0