Absence of adaptive nonshivering thermogenesis in a marsupial, the fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata)

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 393-401

  Polymeropoulos, E T ^a   Jastroch, M ^b   Frappell, P B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown adipose tissue; Mammals; Marsupials; Nonshivering thermogenesis; Sminthopsis crassicaudata; UCP1

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ION CHANNEL; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL UNCOUPLING PROTEIN; NORADRENALIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; MARSUPIAL; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THERMOGENESIS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CARBON DIOXIDE; ION CHANNELS; MARSUPIALIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; NOREPINEPHRINE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THERMOGENESIS;

DASYURIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SMINTHOPSIS; SMINTHOPSIS CRASSICAUDATA;

EID: 84858721156     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-011-0623-x     Document Type: Article

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