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In mammals, white adipose tissue stores fat, whereas brown adipose tissue burns fat. Brown adipocytes have a common origin with muscle cells, which could help explain their unusual function.
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Figure 1: A revised model of the origins of fat cells.

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- Barbara Cannon and Jan Nedergaard are at the Wenner-Gren Institute, Arrhenius Laboratories F3, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. barbara.cannon@wgi.su.se ,
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Cannon, B., Nedergaard, J. Neither fat nor flesh.Nature 454, 947–948 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/454947a
- Published: 20 August 2008
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