Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Triiodothyronine (T3) promotes brown fat hyperplasia via thyroid hormone receptor α mediated adipocyte progenitor cell proliferation

  • Shengnan Liu,
  • Siyi Shen,
  • Ying Yan,
  • Chao Sun,
  • Zhiqiang Lu,
  • Hua Feng,
  • Yiruo Ma,
  • Zhili Tang,
  • Jing Yu,
  • Yuting Wu,
  • Balázs Gereben,
  • Petra Mohácsik,
  • Csaba Fekete,
  • Xiaoyun Feng,
  • Feixiang Yuan,
  • Feifan Guo,
  • Cheng Hu,
  • Mengle Shao,
  • Xin Gao,
  • Lin Zhao,
  • Yuying Li,
  • Jingjing Jiang,
  • Hao Ying

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31154-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Thyroid hormone (TH) action regulates brown adipose tissue thermogenic capacity through incompletely understood mechanisms. Here the authors report that T3, the active form of TH, increases thermogenic capacity via thyroid hormone receptor α-mediated hyperplasia of brown adipose tissue adipocyte progenitor cells.