Study shows the origin of brown fat cells important for weight maintenance

As per an ongoing research UT Southwestern Medical Center the researchers have found out how new fat cells are formed through the energy-storing fat pads. Working on a study dealing with fight against obesity the researchers have brought in face to face with the origin of brown fat cells that could be one reason for growing fat in body.The lead researcher Dr. Philipp Scherer, Director of the Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research at UT Southwestern explains, “Much of the current excitement in the obesity field stems from recent observations highlighting that, even as adults, we have the ability to generate brown fat cells in response to cold exposure. Unlike white fat cells that mostly just store fat, brown adipocytes keep us warm by burning fat at a high rate. The major finding is that the cold-induced adaptation and appearance of brown fat cells involves the generation of completely new cells rather than a retooling of pre-existing white fat cells into brown fat cells in response to the cold.”