Adipose tissues and thyroid hormones

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 5, Issue Nov, 2014, Pages

  Obregon, Maria Jesus ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

Author keywords

"Browning"; Adipogenesis; Bat; Brite adipocytes; Deiodinases; Lipogenesis; Lipolysis; Thermogenesis

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE; ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; ADIPONECTIN; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN BETA; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN EPSILON; COMPLEMENT FACTOR D; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP); THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE DEIODINASE;

ADIPOGENESIS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENERGY BALANCE; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPOGENESIS; LIPOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PROADIPOCYTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; THERMOGENESIS; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

EID: 84911933989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00479     Document Type: Review

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