Obesity may be due to a malfunctioning of brown fat.
- 17 November 1979
- journal article
- review article
- Vol. 121 (10), 1361-4
Abstract
Recent basic research on the functioning of brown fat, a heat-producing tissue, has been fitted together with research on obesity to provide an exciting and challenging new approach to the study of the cause of obesity and could serve as a starting point for the development of new modes of treatment. Recent studies on brown adipose tissue have shown that a defect in this tissue is one probable cause of obesity.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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