Transcriptome profiling of brown adipose tissue during cold exposure reveals extensive regulation of glucose metabolism

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 308, Issue 5, 2015, Pages E380-E392

  Hao, Qin ^a   Yadav, Rachita ^a,b   Basse, Astrid L ^a   Petersen, Sidsel ^a   Sonne, Si B ^a   Rasmussen, Simon ^b   Zhu, Qianhua ^c   Lu, Zhike ^c   Wang, Jun ^a,c,d,e,f   Audouze, Karine ^b,g   Gupta, Ramneek ^b   Madsen, Lise ^a,h   Kristiansen, Karsten ^a,c   Hansen, Jacob B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Beishan Industrial Zone ^*  (China)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^g UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^h INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCOGEN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTIC ACID; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE KINASE 2; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE KINASE 4; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INDUCTION; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GLYCOGEN METABOLISM; GLYCOLYSIS; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THERMOGENESIS; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL CULTURE; COLD; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; THERMOREGULATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELLS, CULTURED; COLD TEMPERATURE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLUCOSE; GLYCOLYSIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84923862308     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00277.2014     Document Type: Article

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