article_snippet: By experimenting on mice, Professor Alexander Pfeifer from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University Hospital Bonn discovered a new signalling pathway for Adenosine.
article_snippet: Adenosine is known to activate brown fat cells, and is typically released during stress.
article_snippet: Adenosine is transmitted by the adenosine receptor A2A. If adenosine binds to this receptor in brown fat cells, fat burning is significantly stimulated.
article_snippet: researchers at the University of Bonn transferred A2A receptors from brown fat cells to white fat cells in mice and found researchers at the University of Bonn started to burn more fat.