A novel crosstalk between Alk7 and cGMP signaling differentially regulates brown adipocyte function

• Main Authors: Aileen Balkow (Author), Johanna Jagow (Author), Bodo Haas (Author), Franziska Siegel (Author), Ana Kilić (Author), Alexander Pfeifer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Obesity is an enormous burden for patients and health systems world-wide. Brown adipose tissue dissipates energy in response to cold and has been shown to be metabolically active in human adults. The type I transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) receptor Activin receptor-like kinase 7 (Alk7)...