Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Central nicotine induces browning through hypothalamic κ opioid receptor

  • Patricia Seoane-Collazo,
  • Laura Liñares-Pose,
  • Eva Rial-Pensado,
  • Amparo Romero-Picó,
  • José María Moreno-Navarrete,
  • Noelia Martínez-Sánchez,
  • Pablo Garrido-Gil,
  • Ramón Iglesias-Rey,
  • Donald A. Morgan,
  • Naoki Tomasini,
  • Samuel Andrew Malone,
  • Ana Senra,
  • Cintia Folgueira,
  • Gema Medina-Gomez,
  • Tomás Sobrino,
  • José L. Labandeira-García,
  • Rubén Nogueiras,
  • Ana I. Domingos,
  • José-Manuel Fernández-Real,
  • Kamal Rahmouni,
  • Carlos Diéguez,
  • Miguel López

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12004-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Nicotine reduces food intake and increases energy expenditure in brown adipose tissue. Here the authors show that nicotine also induces white adipose tissue browning via central kappa opioid receptor action.