Brown adipose tissue: Updates in cellular and molecular biology

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 452-460

  Bargut, Thereza Cristina Lonzetti ^a   Aguila, Marcia Barbosa ^a   Mandarim de Lacerda, Carlos Alberto ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brown adipocytes; Brown adipose tissue; Non shivering thermogenesis; Obesity; Uncoupling protein 1

Indexed keywords

BETA LAPACHONE; CHENODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; EPHEDRINE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 21; IRISIN; LEPTIN; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; MENTHOL; NORADRENALIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; THYMOL; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR ALPHA; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR BETA; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PPARGC1A PROTEIN, MOUSE; PRDM16 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UCP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; BROWN ADIPOCYTE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLD EXPOSURE; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LIPID DIET; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; THERMOGENESIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE STRUCTURE; ADIPOCYTE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOUSE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADIPOCYTES; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR-ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1-ALPHA; THERMOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1;

EID: 84991696425     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: 15323072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tice.2016.08.001     Document Type: Review

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