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. 2017 Mar 16;124(2):482–496. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00021.2017

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3.

Sympathetic and sensory control of brown adipose tissue (BAT) and white adipose tissue (WAT) depots. Common neural centers involved in the regulation of energy balance have been proposed to relay sympathetic impulses to, and receive sensory inputs from, BAT and WAT depots (132, 133). While sympathetic nervous system (SNS) sensory feedback loop is proposed to be largely responsible for the regulation of lipolysis in WAT and thermogenesis in BAT, emerging evidence indicates that sensory inputs from WAT can alter thermogenic responses in BAT (56).