Brown adipose tissue growth and development: Significance and nutritional regulation

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1589-1608

  Satterfield, Michael Carey ^a   Wu, Guoyao ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adipocyte; Arginine; Brown adipose tissue; Metabolism; Nitric oxide; Obesity; Review; Thermogenesis; Uncoupling protein

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CATECHOLAMINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL UNCOUPLING PROTEIN; PPARGC1A PROTEIN, HUMAN; PRDM16 PROTEIN, HUMAN; THYROID HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LIPOLYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SHEEP; THERMOREGULATION;

ADIPOCYTES, BROWN; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARGININE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CATECHOLAMINES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ION CHANNELS; LIPOLYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OBESITY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; SHEEP; THYROID HORMONES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79955010740     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3807     Document Type: Article

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