The role and importance of brown adipose tissue in energy homeostasis

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 478-484

  Cypess, Aaron M ^a   Kahn, C Ronald ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

brown adipose tissue; energy balance; PET8267computed tomography; uncoupling protein 1

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1;

ADIPOCYTE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CALORIC INTAKE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPOLYSIS; OBESITY; PANDEMIC; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; THERMOGENESIS; TISSUE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; CHILD; ENERGY METABOLISM; METABOLISM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADULT; CHILD; ENERGY METABOLISM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; OBESITY;

EID: 77955231538     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e32833a8d6e     Document Type: Review

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