Partial removal of brown adipose tissue enhances humoral immunity in warm-acclimated Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 144-152

  Yang, Deng Bao ^a,b   Xu, Yan Chao ^a,b   Wang, De Hua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Brown adipose tissue; Cold acclimation; Immunity; Mongolian gerbil; Thermoregulation; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; GERBIL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 84855204963     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.10.012     Document Type: Article

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