Therapeutic prospects of metabolically active brown adipose tissue in humans
The worldwide obesity epidemic constitutes a severe threat to human health and wellbeing and poses a major challenge to healthcare systems. Current therapeutic approaches, relying mainly on reduced energy intake and/or increased exercise energy expenditure, are generally of limited effectiveness. Pr...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2011-11-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Endocrinology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fendo.2011.00086/full |