Brown fat in a protoendothermic mammal fuels eutherian evolution

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Oelkrug, Rebecca ^a   Goetze, Nadja ^a   Exner, Cornelia ^a   Lee, Yang ^b   Ganjam, Goutham K ^a   Kutschke, Maria ^c   Müller, Saskia ^c   Stöhr, Sigrid ^a   Tschöp, Matthias H ^c   Crichton, Paul G ^b   Heldmaier, Gerhard ^a   Jastroch, Martin ^c   Meyer, Carola W ^a,c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1;

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOENERGETICS; BODY TEMPERATURE; ECTOTHERMY; ENDOTHERMY; FAT; HEDGEROW; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENETICS;

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HEDGEHOG; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NONSHIVERING THERMOGENESIS; ORTHOLOGY; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; REPRODUCTION; TENREC; THERMOREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; INSECTIVORA; ION CHANNELS; MALE; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; THERMOGENESIS;

EID: 84880382594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3140     Document Type: Article

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