Based on his findings, Herzig believes that brownfat may originate from a mother cell of adipose tissue that by default tends to make white fat.
根据他的调查结果,赫齐格认为,棕色脂肪可能源自脂肪组织母细胞,默认情况下产生白色脂肪。
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“Brownfat is one of the body’s natural defenses against obesity, ” said cell biologist Bruce Spiegelman of Harvard Medical School, who co-authored the paper published Wednesday in Nature.