Control and physiological determinants of sympathetically mediated brown adipose tissue thermogenesis

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Volumn 3, Issue FEB, 2012, Pages

  Richard, Denis ^a   Monge Roffarello, Boris ^a   Chechi, Kanta ^a   Labbé, Sébastien M ^a   Turcotte, Eric E ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age; Cold exposure; Energy balance; Energy expenditure; Environmental temperature; Melanocortin system; Positron emission tomography; Sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874403110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2012.00036     Document Type: Review

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