A missing link in the puzzle: Brown adipose tissue

Hepatology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1470-1471

  Purnak, Tugrul ^a   Ozaslan, Ersan ^a   Efe, Cumali ^a   Sevimler, Hasan ^b  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Alanya Government Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; ROSIGLITAZONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

AGING; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CALORIC INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE; FATTY LIVER; GENETICS; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LETTER; LIVER DISEASE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; FATTY LIVER; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OBESITY;

EID: 77950606090     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.23559     Document Type: Letter

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