From white to brown fat through the PGC-1α-dependent myokine irisin: implications for diabetes and obesity.

Dis Model Mech

Institute of Healthy Ageing and Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.

Published: May 2012

Summary and comment on a recent paper entitled ‘A PGC1-α-dependent myokine that drives brown-fat-like development of white fat and thermogenesis’ (Boström et al., 2012).

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3339822PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dmm.009894DOI Listing

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