Quantitative evaluation of the effects of cold exposure of rats on the expression levels of ten FABP isoforms in brown adipose tissue

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 237-242

  Yamamoto, Takenori ^a   Yamamoto, Atsushi ^a   Watanabe, Masahiro ^a   Kataoka, Masatoshi ^b   Terada, Hiroshi ^c   Shinohara, Yasuo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brown adipose tissue; Cold exposure protein; Fatty acid binding protein (FABP); Isoforms

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; COLD EXPOSURE; EXPRESSION LEVELS; FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEINS; ISOFORMS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPT LEVEL;

PROTEINS; RATS; RNA; TISSUE;

FATTY ACIDS;

FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; COLD; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NORTHERN BLOTTING; RAT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; COLD TEMPERATURE; FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER;

RATTUS;

EID: 78651440628     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-010-0444-0     Document Type: Article

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