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Whitening and Impaired Glucose Utilization of Brown Adipose Tissue in a Rat Model of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is an attractive therapeutic target to combat diabetes and obesity due to its ability to increase glucose expenditure. In a genetic rat model (ZDF fa/fa) of type-2 diabetes and obesity, we aimed to investigate glucose utilization of BAT by (18)F-FDG PET imaging. Male Zucke...

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Autores principales: Lapa, Constantin, Arias-Loza, Paula, Hayakawa, Nobuyuki, Wakabayashi, Hiroshi, Werner, Rudolf A., Chen, Xinyu, Shinaji, Tetsuya, Herrmann, Ken, Pelzer, Theo, Higuchi, Takahiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5711946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29196742
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17148-w