Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Mouse strains to study cold-inducible beige progenitors and beige adipocyte formation and function

  • Daniel C. Berry,
  • Yuwei Jiang,
  • Jonathan M. Graff

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10184
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Beige adipocytes are formed in response to cold and thought to contribute to organismal energy homeostasis. Here, the authors study a range of conditional and inducible RFP-expressing Cre mouse strains and find that SMA-based lines are the most useful for mapping beige adipocyte progenitor cells.