The brown adipocyte differentiation pathway in birds: An evolutionary road not taken

BACKGROUND: Thermogenic brown adipose tissue has never been described in birds or other non-mammalian vertebrates. Brown adipocytes in mammals are distinguished from the more common white fat adipocytes by having numerous small lipid droplets rather than a single large one, elevated numbers of mitoc...

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Autores principales: Mezentseva, Nadejda V, Kumaratilake, Jaliya S, Newman, Stuart A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2375860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18426587
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-6-17

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2375860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18426587
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-6-17

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