Brown Adipose Tissue in humans is activated by elevated plasma catecholamines levels and is inversely related to central obesity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Qidi ^a   Zhang, Min ^b   Ning, Guang ^a   Gu, Weiqiong ^a   Su, Tingwei ^a   Xu, Min ^a   Li, Biao ^b   Wang, Weiqing ^a  

^a SHANGHAI SECOND MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; METADRENALIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; OBESITY; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ABDOMINAL OBESITY; BLOOD; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY;

RODENTIA;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADULT; CATECHOLAMINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 79959305513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021006     Document Type: Article

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