Cold-induced thermoregulation and biological aging

Physiological Reviews

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 339-358

  Florez Duquet, Maria ^a   Mcdonald, Roger B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN;

AGED; AGING; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BODY FAT; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; COLD EXPOSURE; HEAT LOSS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NONSHIVERING THERMOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0031945461     PISSN: 00319333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physrev.1998.78.2.339     Document Type: Review

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