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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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Autores principales: Muzik, Otto, Mangner, Thomas J., Granneman, James G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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