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Brown adipose tissue: what have we learned since its recent identification in human adults
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Brown adipose tissue: what have we learned since its recent identification in human adults
Arq Bras Endocrinol Metabol.
2014 Dec.
Abstract
Brown adipose tissue, an essential organ for thermoregulation in small and hibernating mammals due to its mitochondrial uncoupling capacity, was until recently considered to be present in humans only in newborns. The identification of brown adipose tissue in adult humans since the development and use of positron emission tomography marked with 18-fluorodeoxyglucose (PET-FDG) has raised a series of doubts and questions about its real importance in our metabolism. In this review, we will discuss what we have learnt since its identification in humans as well as both new and old concepts, some of which have been marginalized for decades, such as diet-induced thermogenesis.
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