Vascular rarefaction mediates whitening of brown fat in obesity

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2099-2112

  Shimizu, Ippei ^a   Aprahamian, Tamar ^a   Kikuchi, Ryosuke ^a   Shimizu, Ayako ^a   Papanicolaou, Kyriakos N ^a   MacLauchlan, Susan ^a   Maruyama, Sonomi ^a   Walsh, Kenneth ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE WHITENING; CAPILLARY; CAPILLARY RAREFACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; GENE DELETION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HYPOXIA; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIPID STORAGE; MICROANGIOPATHY; MITOPHAGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VASCULARIZATION;

ADIPOCYTES, BROWN; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOSE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL DEGRADATION; OBESITY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84899755491     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI71643     Document Type: Article

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