Cold adaptive thermogenesis in small mammals from different geographical zones of China

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 949-961

  Li, Qingfen ^a   Sun, Ruyong ^a   Huang, Chenxi ^a   Wang, Zhengkun ^a   Liu, Xiaotuan ^a   Hou, Jianjum ^a   Liu, Jinsong ^a   Cai, Liquan ^a   Li, Ning ^a   Zhang, Shuzhen ^a   Wang, Yu ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brown adipose tissue; Liver; Mitochondria; Non shivering thermogenesis; Resting metabolic rate; Small mammal; Thyroid hormone; Uncoupling protein mRNA

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE DEIODINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CHINA; CLIMATE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD EXPOSURE; COLD STRESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERBIL; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; NONHUMAN; NONSHIVERING THERMOGENESIS; PRIMATE; PROTEIN CONTENT; SQUIRREL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOREGULATION; VOLE;

EOTHENOMYS; GERBILLINAE; MAMMALIA; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; MICROTUS BRANDTI; MILETUS; MURIDAE; OCHOTONA CURZONIAE; OCHOTONA PRINCEPS; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS DAURICUS; TUPAIA BELANGERI; TUPAIA GLIS;

EID: 0034964560     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(01)00357-9     Document Type: Article

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