Sugar, White and Brown

Mitochondria in White, Brown, and Beige Adipocytes

Mitochondria play a key role in energy metabolism in many tissues, including cardiac and skeletal muscle, brain, liver, and adipose tissue. Three types of adipose depots can be identified in mammals, commonly classified according to their colour appearance: the white (WAT), the brown (BAT), and the beige/brite/brown-like (bAT) adipose tissues. WAT is mainly involved in the storage and mobilizat...

Development of brown and white adipose tissue.

The Disposal of White and Brown Goods

In order to attain waste reduction and the closing of material life cycles, the Dutch Ministry of Environment made an attempt to sign a covenant with the producers and importers of household appliances (the so-called white and brown goods). The negotiations started in 1992 involving all stakeholders: representatives of the producers and importers, the government (state, provincial and local lev...

Caking of White Sugar and How to Prevent It

Water is a major constituent of food products even if it is present at a trace level as in white crystalline sugar. Molecular interactions between sugar and water are at the origin of structural as well as mechanical properties (density, compressibility, flow) of bulk sugar. Conditioning of white sugar is therefore difficult because it is sensitive to relative humidity and temperature of surrou...

Wnt10b inhibits development of white and brown adipose tissues.

Wnt is a family of secreted signaling proteins that regulate diverse developmental processes. Activation of canonical Wnt signaling by Wnt10b inhibits differentiation of preadipocytes in vitro. To determine whether Wnt signaling blocks adipogenesis in vivo, we created transgenic mice in which Wnt10b is expressed from the FABP4 promoter. Expression of Wnt10b in adipose impairs development of thi...