Brown adipose tissue function is accompanied by cerebral activation in lean but not in obese humans

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1018-1023

  Orava, Janne ^a   Nummenmaa, Lauri ^a,b   Noponen, Tommi ^c   Viljanen, Tapio ^a   Parkkola, Riitta ^a,d   Nuutila, Pirjo ^a,c   Virtanen, Kirsi A ^a  

^a TURKU PET CENTRE   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

brain; brown adipose tissue; cold; glucose uptake; obesity; positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN METABOLISM; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CEREBELLUM; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LIMBIC CORTEX; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; NEOCORTEX; OBESITY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PARIETAL LOBE; PONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADULT; BRAIN; COLD TEMPERATURE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBESITY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84901857263     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2014.50     Document Type: Article

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