Nutritional programming of brown adipose tissue

Maintenance of functional brown adipose tissue (BAT) beyond the newborn period, through its role in expending energy in thermogenesis, provides a potential target to prevent childhood obesity. As the body’s fat distribution can be programmed by nutrition in early life, this study investigated whethe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alagal, Reham
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/53733/