Volume 27, No 11, Nov 2017

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 27 Issue 11, November 2017: 1300-1301

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White adipose tissue coloring by intermittent fasting

Riikka Kivelä¹ and Kari Alitalo¹

¹Wihuri Research Institute and Translational Cancer Biology Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Correspondence: Riikka Kivelä, E-mail: riikka.kivela@helsinki.fi; Kari Alitalo,(kari.alitalo@helsinki.fi)

Intermittent fasting (IF) has been shown to promote metabolic health in several organisms. Two recent papers show that IF induces white adipose tissue beiging and increases thermogenesis, which improves metabolic health in mice.

10.1038/cr.2017.130

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