The role of thyroid hormone and brown adipose tissue in energy homoeostasis

The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 250-258

  Bianco, Antonio C ^a   McAninch, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; BETA 3 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; GC 24; HORMONE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; INSULIN; KB 141; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA; THREONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; THYROXINE DEIODINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; ION CHANNEL; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL UNCOUPLING PROTEIN; PPARGC1A PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADIPOGENESIS; ADRB3 GENE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; DRUG TARGETING; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAMMAL; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PPARG1A GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THERMOGENESIS; UCP1 GENE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADULT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENERGY METABOLISM; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADULT; ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; ION CHANNELS; MICE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THERMOGENESIS; THYROID HORMONES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84886890587     PISSN: 22138587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-8587(13)70069-X     Document Type: Review

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