Acupuncture promotes white adipose tissue browning by inducing UCP1 expression on DIO mice

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Shen, Weixing ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Lu, Sheng Feng ^a   Hong, Hao ^a   Fu, Shuping ^a   He, Suyun ^a   Li, Qian ^a   Yue, Jingxin ^a   Xu, Bin ^a   Zhu, Bing Mei ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Browning; Obesity; UCP1; White adipose tissue

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; COX4IL PROTEIN; HEMATOXYLIN; LEPTIN; NRTF1 PROTEIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1; ION CHANNEL; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL UNCOUPLING PROTEIN;

ACETYLATION; ACUPRESSURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY WEIGHT; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COLD ENDURANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FOOD INTAKE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIPID DIET; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHYSICAL RESTRAINT; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAINING; TREATMENT DURATION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE; ACUPUNCTURE; ADIPOCYTE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; METABOLISM;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADIPOCYTES; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DIET, HIGH-FAT; ION CHANNELS; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OBESITY;

EID: 84924752961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-14-501     Document Type: Article

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