The adipose organ of obesity-prone C57BL/6J mice is composed of mixed white and brown adipocytes

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 619-629

  Vitali, A ^a   Murano, I ^a   Zingaretti, M C ^a   Frontini, A ^a   Ricquier, D ^b   Cinti, S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c Adipose Organ Lab   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adipose tissue; Beta oxidation; Diabetes; Innervations; Transdifferentiation

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CELL COUNT; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID STORAGE; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADIPOCYTES, BROWN; ADIPOCYTES, WHITE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; COLD TEMPERATURE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE FIBERS; OBESITY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84859410604     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: 15397262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M018846     Document Type: Article

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