Brown adipose tissue improves whole-body glucose homeostasis and insulin sensitivity in humans

Diabetes

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4089-4099

  Chondronikola, Maria ^a,b,c,d   Volpi, Elena ^b,c   Børsheim, Elisabet ^a,b   Porter, Craig ^a,b   Annamalai, Palam ^c   Enerbäck, Sven ^e   Lidell, Martin E ^e   Saraf, Manish K ^a,b   Labbe, Sebastien M ^f   Hurren, Nicholas M ^a,b   Yfanti, Christina ^a,c   Chao, Tony ^a,b,c   Andersen, Clark R ^a,b   Cesani, Fernando ^c   Hawkins, Hal ^a,b   Sidossis, Labros S ^a,b,c,d  

^a SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^d HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^f LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; COLD EXPOSURE; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE OXIDATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESTING ENERGY EXPENDITURE;

EID: 84911896533     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: 1939327X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/db14-0746     Document Type: Article

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