The presence of UCP1 demonstrates that metabolically active adipose tissue in the neck of adult humans truly represents brown adipose tissue
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- 15 April 2009
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- Published by Wiley in The FASEB Journal
- Vol. 23 (9), 3113-3120
- https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.09-133546
Abstract
Classically, adult humans have been considered not to possess active brown adipose tissue (BAT). However, positron-emission-tomography has shown fluorodeoxyglucose uptake that is distributed in such ...Keywords
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