The Micro-Managing Fat: Exosomes as a New Messenger

Publication date: Available online 10 May 2017
Source:Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism
Author(s): Xiao-Wei Chen, Siming Li, Jiandie D. Lin
Brown fat secretes endocrine factors and exerts metabolic effects beyond thermogenesis. In addition to protein factors and bioactive lipids, recent work has revealed brown fat-derived miRNAs carried by exosomes as a new means of interorgan crosstalk, with potentially important implications for metabolic physiology and disease.



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