Adipose tissue development - Impact of the early life environment

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 300-306

  Symonds, Michael E ^a   Budge, Helen ^a   Perkins, Alan C ^a   Lomax, Michael A ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brown; Nutrition; Photoperiod; White adipose tissue

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL UNCOUPLING PROTEIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ION CHANNELS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHOTOPERIOD;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 79957975103     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2010.11.008     Document Type: Review

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