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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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BioMed Central
2008
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| 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 |