Should we abandon indirect calorimetry as a tool to diagnose energy expenditure? Not yet. Perhaps not ever. Commentary on Burnett and Grobe (2014)

Molecular Metabolism

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 342-344

  Speakman, John R ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BODY COMPOSITION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CALORIMETRY; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; GAS ANALYSIS; GAS EXCHANGE; GAS FLOW; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NOTE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING METABOLIC RATE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOGENESIS;

EID: 84902355930     PISSN: 22128778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2014.04.003     Document Type: Note

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