Brown Adipose Tissue: A New Target for Antiobesity Therapy
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Recruited brown adipose tissue as an antiobesity agent in humans.
Brown adipose tissue (BAT) burns fat to produce heat when the body is exposed to cold and plays a role in energy metabolism. Using fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography and computed tomography, we previously reported that BAT decreases with age and thereby accelerates age-related accumulation of body fat in humans. Thus, the recruitment of BAT may be effective for body fat reduction. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Indonesian Biomedical Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2355-9179,2085-3297
DOI: 10.18585/inabj.v2i2.115