From White to Brown Fat Through the PGC-1α-dependent Myokine Irisin: Implications for Diabetes and Obesity

Overview

Journal Dis Model Mech

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2012 May 9

PMID 22566556

Citations 56

Authors

Jorge Ivan Castillo-Quan

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