EFFECT OF AMBIANT TEMPERATURE ON DEVELOPMENT AND COMPOSITION OF BROWN ADIPOSE-TISSUE OF NEWBORN RAT

  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 172  (2) , 263-268
Abstract
The weight and the lipid, water and norepinephrine contents of the interscapular brown adipose tissue from 1, 3, 7, 11, 14 and 21 day aged rats were measured. The animals were maintained at an ambient temperature of 16.degree., 23.degree. or 28.degree. C from birth. Nonshivering thermogenesis is apparently not necessary after 3 days of age in animals kept at 28.degree. C and after 11 days of age in the ones kept at 23.degree. C. Thermogenesis probably persists for the entire suckling period in those kept at 16.degree. C.

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