Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis above the lower critical temperature |
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Authors: | M Puerta I Martín-Padura M Abelenda |
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Institution: | Departamento de Fisiología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. |
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Abstract: | Heat-acclimated rats show lighter IBAT deposit with different gross composition and lower GDP-binding than controls at thermoneutrality. A thermal disactivation of the tissue is then inferred. Cafeteria regime increased IBAT mass and GDP-binding when offered to rats at a thermoneutral ambient temperature. These results indicate that BAT thermogenesis at thermoneutrality is not the lowest one of the tissue and that diet-induced thermogenesis can take place even at thermoneutrality. |
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