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Heat from calcium cycling melts fat

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A new study in mice shows that sarcolipin, a small, regulatory protein of the intracellular calcium pump (SERCA) in skeletal muscle, is part of a nonshivering thermogenic mechanism for regulating both core body temperature and energy balance (pages 1575–1579).

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Figure 1: Nonshivering thermogenesis (NST) from muscle and brown adipose tissue (BAT).

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  1. Leslie P. Kozak is at the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Science, Olsztyn, Poland.,

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  2. Martin E. Young is in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.,

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