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  • Slit3 Fragments Orchestrate Neurovascular Expansion and Thermogenesis in Brown Adipose Tissue

    Serdan TDA, Cervantes H, Frank B, Tian Q, Choi CHJ, Hoffmann A, Cohen P, Blüher M, Schwartz GJ, Shamsi F. (2024) BioRxiv.

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  • Vascular smooth muscle-derived Trpv1+ progenitors are a source of cold-induced thermogenic adipocytes

    Farnaz Shamsi, Mary Piper, Li-Lun Ho, Tian Lian Huang, Anushka Gupta, Aaron Streets, Matthew D. Lynes & Yu-Hua Tseng. Nature Metabolism. (2021) 3: 485–495

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  • Comprehensive analysis of intercellular communication in thermogenic adipose niche

    Shamsi F#*, Zheng R#, Ho L-L, Chen K*, Tseng Y-H*. (2023) Communication Biology. PubMed #Equal contribution, *Corresponding author

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  • Advances in Adipose Tissue Biology

    Corvera S, Rajan A, Townsend KL, Shamsi F, Wu J, Svensson KJ, Zeltser LM, Collins S, Reis T, Tseng YH, Goodyear LJ (2025). Advances in Adipose Tissue Biology. Endocrine Reviews. 2025 Sep 11:bnaf032.

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  • The evolving view of thermogenic adipocytes - ontogeny, niche and function

    Farnaz Shamsi, Chih-Hao Wang, Yu-Hua Tseng. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2021 Dec;17(12):726-744.

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  • Methods for Single Cell Transcriptomic Analysis of Adipose Tissue

    Shamsi F. Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2662:241-249.

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  • CRISPR-engineered human brown-like adipocytes prevent diet-induced obesity and ameliorate metabolic syndrome in mice

    Wang CH, Lundh M, Fu A, Kriszt R, Huang TL, Lynes MD, Leiria LO, Shamsi F, Darcy J, Greenwood BP, Narain NR, Tolstikov V, Smith KL, Emanuelli B, Chang YT, Hagen S, Danial NN, Kiebish MA, Tseng YH. (2020). Science Translational Medicine. 26;12(558).

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  • FGF6 and FGF9 regulate UCP1 expression independent of brown adipogenesis

    Farnaz Shamsi, Ruidan Xue, Tian Lian Huang, Morten Lundh, Yang Liu, Luiz O. Leiria, Matthew D. Lynes, Elena Kempf, Chih-Hao Wang, Satoru Sugimoto, Pasquale Nigro, Kathrin Landgraf, Tim Schulz, Yiming Li, Brice Emanuelli, Srinivas Kothakota, Lewis T. Williams, Niels Jessen, Steen Bønløkke Pedersen, Yvonne Böttcher, Matthias Blüher, Antje Körner, Laurie J. Goodyear, Moosa Mohammadi, Yu-Hua Tseng. Nature Communications 11, Article number: 1421 (2020).

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