Direct assessment of brown adipose tissue as a site of systemic tri-iodothyronine production in the rat
- 31 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 243 (1) , 281-284
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj2430281
Abstract
Tri-iodothyronine (T3) production by interscapular brown fat was studied by measurements of arterio-venous differences and blood flow across the tissue in rats exposed to the following situations, controls, acute cold, chronic cold and starvation. Results demonstrate that brown adipose tissue is a source of systemic T3 in the rat and that the T3 release is modulated according to the physiological situation of the animal: increased in cold exposure and inhibited in starvation.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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