Targeting fat to prevent diabetes.
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Abstract
An emerging view is that obesity causes metabolic problems when adipose tissue fails to meet the increased demands for fat storage. A study in this issue of Cell Metabolism (Waki et al., 2007) has identified harmine as a proadipogenic small molecule that promotes energy expenditure in white adipose tissue and delays the onset of obesity-associated diabetes.
Medical subject headings
- Adipogenesis
- Adipose Tissue
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Harmine
- Obesity