title: Orexin turns up the heat on obesity.
abstract: Brown adipocytes burn chemical energy to produce heat for protection against hypothermia and obesity. Sellayah et al. now reveal that a secreted neuropeptide, Orexin, functions a key driver of brown adipocyte differentiation through direct actions on brown adipose precursors.
authors: Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA. sealep@upenn.edu
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