Brown adipose tissue, whole-body energy expenditure, and thermogenesis in healthy adult men

Obesity

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-16

  Yoneshiro, Takeshi ^a   Aita, Sayuri ^a   Matsushita, Mami ^a   Kameya, Toshimitsu ^b   Nakada, Kunihiro ^b   Kawai, Yuko ^b   Saito, Masayuki ^a  

^a TENSHI COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Sapporo Mental Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CALORIMETRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METABOLISM; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGENESIS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGENESIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650676545     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2010.105     Document Type: Article

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