Temperature- and capsaicin-sensitive nerve fibers in brown adipose tissue attenuate thermogenesis in the rat

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 437, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 36-42

  Osaka, Toshimasa ^a   Kobayashi, Akiko ^b   Namba, Yoshio ^a   Ezaki, Osamu ^a   Inoue, Shuji ^a   Kimura, Shuichi ^b   Lee, Tai Hee ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NUTRITION   (Japan)

^b SHOWA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Brown adipose tissue; Calcitonin gene related peptide; Heat nociceptor; Noradrenaline; Temperature regulation; Thermosensitive fiber

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CAPSAICIN; CAPSAZEPINE; NEUROPEPTIDE; NORADRENALIN BITARTRATE; SUBSTANCE P; VANILLOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NERVE FIBER; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOGENESIS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CAPSAICIN; DENERVATION; FEMALE; HEAT; NERVE FIBERS; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANCE P;

EID: 0032431616     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004240050743     Document Type: Article

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