Dietary manipulation of brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis in healthy adult volunteers

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is one of the three different types of adipose tissues found in mammals and is only present in small amounts in the adult human (~100 g), of which the main site is the supraclavicular neck region. As BAT possess a unique mitochondrial uncoupling protein (UCP1), it can have...

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Main Author: Vazquez Rocha, Lucia del Carmen
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/56862/