MicroRNA Regulation of Brown Adipogenesis and Thermogenic Energy Expenditure

Farnaz Shamsi; Hongbin Zhang; Yu-Hua Tseng

doi:10.3389/fendo.2017.00205

MicroRNA Regulation of Brown Adipogenesis and Thermogenic Energy Expenditure

Farnaz Shamsi, Hongbin Zhang, Yu-Hua Tseng

Inflammation, Metabolism and Oxidation

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Abstract

Obesity, diabetes, and associated metabolic diseases have become global epidemics. Obesity results from excess accumulation of white fat, while brown and its related beige fat function to dissipate energy as heat, thus counteracting obesity and its related metabolic disorders. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms for both white and brown adipogenesis provides new insights for prevention and treatment of these metabolic diseases. In addition to traditional gene transcription and translation, microRNA (miRNA) represents a new layer of regulatory mechanism in many biological processes and has attracted a great deal of research interests in exploring their roles in physiological and pathophysiological conditions. This review focuses on the recent advances of regulating brown adipogenesis and energy metabolism by miRNAs, aiming to delineate the regulatory principles of miRNAs on this unique aspect of energy homeostasis.

Original language	English
Article number	205
Journal	Frontiers in Endocrinology
Volume	8
Number of pages	7
ISSN	1664-2392
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2017.00205
Publication status	Published - 23 Aug 2017

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