Physiology of transgenic mice with brown fat ablation: Obesity is due to lowered body temperature

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 274, Issue 2 43-2, 1998, Pages

  Klaus, Susanne ^a,b   Münzberg, Heike ^b   Trüloff, Christiane ^b   Heldmaier, Gerhard ^b  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brown adipose tissue; Energy balance; Metabolic rate; Uncoupling protein

Indexed keywords

UNCOUPLING PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL UNCOUPLING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; ENERGY BALANCE; FEMALE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEMETRY; THERMOGENESIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ABSORPTION; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; GENETICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; THERMOREGULATION;

ABSORPTION; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BODY WEIGHT; CARRIER PROTEINS; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; EATING; INSULIN RESISTANCE; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 0031990695     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.274.2.r287     Document Type: Article

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