Glucocorticoids Acutely Increase Brown Adipose Tissue Activity in Humans, Revealing Species-Specific Differences in UCP-1 Regulation

Cell Metabolism

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 130-141

  Ramage, Lynne E ^a   Akyol, Murat ^b   Fletcher, Alison M ^c   Forsythe, John ^b   Nixon, Mark ^a   Carter, Roderick N ^a   van Beek, Edwin J R ^c   Morton, Nicholas M ^a   Walker, Brian R ^a   Stimson, Roland H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; ISOPRENALINE; PREDNISOLONE; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1; GLUCOCORTICOID; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL RESPIRATION; COLD; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THERMOGENESIS; WHITE ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOCYTE; ANIMAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOPSY; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG EFFECTS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADIPOCYTES; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOPSY; CELLS, CULTURED; COLD TEMPERATURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84992437294     PISSN: 15504131     EISSN: 19327420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2016.06.011     Document Type: Article

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