Cold-induced activation of brown adipose tissue and adipose angiogenesis in mice

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 606-615

  Lim, Sharon ^a   Honek, Jennifer ^a   Xue, Yuan ^a   Seki, Takahiro ^a   Cao, Ziquan ^b   Andersson, Patrik ^a   Yang, Xiaojuan ^a   Hosaka, Kayoko ^a   Cao, Yihai ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1;

ADIPOSE MASS; ADULT ANIMAL; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD EXPOSURE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; THERMOGENESIS; VASCULAR DENSITY; WEIGHT, MASS AND SIZE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; COLD TEMPERATURE; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; THERMOGENESIS;

MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84861739378     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.013     Document Type: Article

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