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What is PPAR-gamma?
This modulates UCP1 expression
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What is "The five symptoms of metabolic syndrome."?
Abdominal Obesity, High Blood Pressure, impaired fasting blood glucose, Low HDL and High triglycerides
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What is 100%?
The percentage that human and mouse Irisin are the same
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What is the N terminal?
This end of the FNDC5 protein faces the extracellular space before it is cleaved
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What is the BMI requirement for a person to be classified as obese?
A BMI over 30
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What is white fat has one large lipid droplet with little mitochondria and brown fat has a lot of mitochondria and multiple lipid droplets.
The main distinction between the histology of Brown Fat vs White Fat
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What is Forskolin?
This root extract is used to treat weight loss
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What is the United States?
in 2022 this first world country has the highest % of its population obese
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What is 5%?
your body weight is composed of this percentage of brown fat
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What is Irisin?
Increasing the Levels of ____ increases energy expenditure, reduces body weight and improves diet induced insulin resistance according to this study
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What is the Inguinal subcutaneous depot?
While swimming in warm water mice had the highest expression of UCP1 in this type of fat
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What is the Duodenal Switch?
The most effective and aggressive Bariatric Surgery (Weight Loss Surgery)
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What is the neck and shoulder region.
Brown fat is normally stored in these areas in humans
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What is the Affymetrix Gene system?
The commercial microarray platform that allows for whole genome gene expression analysis for a wide variety of organisms.
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What is Glycosylation
The post translational modification displayed by Irisin
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What is colon cancer?
What is the most common type of cancer due to obesity.
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What is Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma co-activator-1-alpha
the full name of PGC1 alpha
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What is a Stromal Vascular Fraction?
The mixture of adipose derived stem cells or other cells obtained from fat tissue
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