Obesity, this discovery could lead to new drugs for diabetes and heart disease - the researchers found that the body will burn fat to stimulate a new molecular mechanism.
Adipocytes Foliculina mouse genes are proteins produced by the light with the same name, the researchers turned to burn fat cells stored biomolecules caused by a series of signals.
The process of fat cells, the "browning" argument. The main role of brown fat helps to keep our body temperature constant heat, which is energy produced by combustion. White adipose tissue acts as an energy storage.
Scientists have recently healthy, white, brown fat invented a new feature of adipose tissue and in between. In response to certain stimuli, such as exposure to cold so-called beige fat can act like brown fat.
"White fat cells beige or brown fat cells stored in body tissues, because it does not convert the extra energy, obesity, signs of the most desirable effects of diabetes and metabolic syndrome, but it is beige or brown adipose tissue, burn fat," the main author of the study, Arnim pause, Montreal, McGill University professor.
The magazine on the Genes & Development, published research in mouse fat cells produce is not high on foliculina. Then follicles less junk food, such as rats and mice 14 weeks of high-fat diet, no more than the normal mice.
Deficient mice and normal mice foliculina lean body mass increased rapidly.
By measuring oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production rate, the researchers found that the mice burn more fat, lack of follicle stimulating hormone.
At the end of the test, in white adipose tissue, small cells, mice generally have a low white adipose tissue.
It can produce the best power supply low temperature resistance, the researchers said.
Drug research, "browning" to develop a way to stimulate the process.
"(Research) as a brown adipocytes and obesity / metabolic and other disturbances beige result, in order to help stimulate the development of active control over drugs," Vincent Giguere of Montreal University.
