Metabolic regulation and the anti-obesity perspectives of brown adipose tissue (BAT); a systematic review

Obesity is a disease that body energy intake is more than energy expenditure. In rodents and humans, there are two types of adipose tissue: White adipose tissue and Brown adipose tissue. Whereas WAT stores excess energy as triacylglycerols, BAT is specialized in the production of heat. PubMed and Cochrane databases were searched using the related keywords to find related documents published until August 2019. In total, 115 published reports were...