title: New powers of brown fat: fighting the metabolic syndrome.
abstract: An understanding of the full powers of brown adipose tissue (BAT) is only successively being accumulated. In a paper in Nature Medicine, Bartelt et al. (2011) add further impressive aspects to the potential powers of BAT in the combat against the metabolic syndrome by demonstrating its vast capacity for triglyceride clearance and glucose disposal.
authors.affiliation: The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm 106 91, Sweden. jan@metabol.su.se
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nedergaard
authors.forename: Tore
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bengtsson
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cannon