Brown Fat: Thermogenic Effector of Arousal in Hibernators
- 12 April 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 140 (3563) , 199-200
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.140.3563.199
Abstract
Earlier indications that brown fat has a thermogenic role in rats exposed to cold suggested that certain comparable functions in hibernating marmots be investigated. From the results it appears that arousal of the animal by cold is induced by sympathetically activated thermogenesis in areas of brown fat so located, relative to the vasculature, that heat is transferred to the thoracic structures and cervical spinal regions.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Third International Symposium on Natural Mammalian HibernationCryobiology, 1965
- Il letargoPublished by Biodiversity Heritage Library ,1912