title: Obesity may be due to a malfunctioning of brown fat.
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.
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002001:Adipose Tissue, Brown / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001481:Basal Metabolism; D001833:Body Temperature Regulation; D006801:Humans; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000378:metabolism; D009765:Obesity / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*