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Thermal Imaging Is a Noninvasive Alternative to PET/CT for Measurement of Brown Adipose Tissue Activity in Humans
Obesity and its metabolic consequences are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Brown adipose tissue (BAT) utilizes glucose and free fatty acids to produce heat, thereby increasing energy expenditure. Effective evaluation of human BAT stimulators is constrained by the current standard method of...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Society of Nuclear Medicine
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5868502/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28912148 http://dx.doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.117.190546 |