Browsing HMS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome"
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Brown Fat and Browning for the Treatment of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders
(Korean Diabetes Association, 2016)Brown fat is a specialized fat depot that can increase energy expenditure and produce heat. After the recent discovery of the presence of active brown fat in human adults and novel transcription factors controlling brown ... -
Leptin in Relation to the Lipodystrophy-Associated Metabolic Syndrome
(Korean Diabetes Association, 2012)Leptin, an adipocyte-secreted hormone, regulates energy homeostasis as well as reproductive, neuroendocrine, immune and metabolic functions. Subjects with decreased amounts of fat in their adipose tissue, i.e., lipoatrophy, ...