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Assessment of Oxidative Metabolism in Brown Fat Using PET Imaging
Objective: Although it has been believed that brown adipose tissue (BAT) depots disappear shortly after the perinatal period in humans, positron emission tomography (PET) imaging using the glucose analog (18)F-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG) has shown unequivocally the existence of functional BAT in humans, s...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Research Foundation
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3355936/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22649408 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2012.00015 |