Methods of adipose tissue biology. Part B / edited by Ormond A. MacDougald, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 22, 2014).

This book is a must-have for anyone interested in obesity or the physiology of white or brown adipose tissues. It contains state-of-the-art methods from researchers that are world leaders in this field. Detailed lab protocols range from methods to visualize adipocytes and adipose tissues in humans and experimental models, to convert stem cells into white and brown adipocytes in vitro, to evaluate aspects of adipocyte metabolism, to inducibly knock out genes in adipose tissues, and to evaluate transcriptional control of adipogenesis on a global scale.