A recent study has proved that manipulating autophagy - a cellular process which regulates the formation and inter-conversion of white fat cells and brown fat cells in mice - could solve the problem of obesity.
According to recent data, the more brown fat cells a person has the lower their body mass-a finding that contradicts with the belief that the more white fat cells a person has the greater their body mass.
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However, before developing such an approach, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, wanted to learn about the mechanisms regulating the formation, expansion, and interconversion of these two cell types.
In the new research, Mark Czaja and colleagues have now identified that autophagy regulates the formation of the distinct fat cell types in mice.
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In fact, these mice were leaner than normal.
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