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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 10.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Pediatr. 2010 Aug;22(4):478–484. doi: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e32833a8d6e

Figure 1. The Brown Adipocyte Differentiation and Activation Pathway.

Figure 1

The development of a fully functional brown adipocyte can be divided into three phases: the multipotent mesenchymal stem cell; the brown preadipocytes; and the mature brown adipocytes. Shown for each phase are key hormonal regulators (left) and transcriptional regulators (italics, center).