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A Protective Factor Shields Mice from Obesity and Metabolic Disease (1 of 1)

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A Protective Factor Shields Mice from Obesity and Metabolic Disease (1 of 1)

image: The transcription factor TFEB drove the browning of white fat in female mice on a Western diet (right), compared to a control animal. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 5, 2019, issue of Science Signaling, published by AAAS. The paper, by T.D. Evans at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and colleagues was titled, "TFEB drives PGC-1α expression in adipocytes to protect against diet-induced metabolic dysfunction." view more 

Credit: [Credit: T.D. Evans <i>et al., Science Signaling</i> (2019)]


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