Role of the central melanocortin circuitry in adaptive thermogenesis of brown adipose tissue

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1550-1560

  Voss Andreae, Adriana ^a   Murphy, Jonathan G ^a   Ellacott, Kate L J ^a   Stuart, Ronald C ^b   Nillni, Eduardo A ^b   Cone, Roger D ^a   Fan, Wei ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; MELANOCORTIN; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT INTAKE; HIGH FIBER DIET; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOGENESIS; UPREGULATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COLD; DIET, ATHEROGENIC; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; ION CHANNELS; MALE; MELANOCORTINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; THERMOGENESIS;

EID: 33947387967     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2006-1389     Document Type: Article

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