Brown fat tissue - a potential target to combat obesity

Bratislava Medical Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-56

  Ginter, E ^a   Simko, V ^b  

^a INST OF PREV AND CLINICAL MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adipose tissue engineering; Brown adipose tissue; Cellular bioenegetics; Mitochondria; Obesity prevention; Thermogenesis; Uncoupling protein 1

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; HUMAN; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; HUMANS; OBESITY;

EID: 84871841961     PISSN: 00069248     EISSN: 13360345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4149/BLL_2012_013     Document Type: Review

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