Accurate assessment of brown fat thermogenesis by non-invasive means remains challenging. Writing in Nature Metabolism, Cai et al. leverage the futile creatine cycling characteristic of thermogenic adipocytes to show that a type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique sensitive to endogenous creatine levels faithfully tracks brown fat thermogenesis in rodents and in humans.

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使用肌酸-CEST 创建棕色脂肪的图片。


通过非侵入性手段准确评估棕色脂肪生热作用仍然具有挑战性。蔡等人在《自然代谢》上撰文。利用产热脂肪细胞的无用肌酸循环特征，表明一种对内源性肌酸水平敏感的磁共振成像（MRI）技术可以忠实地跟踪啮齿动物和人类的棕色脂肪产热作用。