Brown adipose tissue in cetacean blubber.

Brown adipose tissue in cetacean blubber.

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) plays an important role in thermoregulation in species living in cold environments, given heat can be generated from its chemical energy reserves. Here we investigate the existence of BAT in blubber in four species of delphinoid cetacean, the Pacific white-sided and bottle...

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Main Authors: Osamu Hashimoto, Hirofumi Ohtsuki, Takehiko Kakizaki, Kento Amou, Ryo Sato, Satoru Doi, Sara Kobayashi, Ayaka Matsuda, Makoto Sugiyama, Masayuki Funaba, Takashi Matsuishi, Fumio Terasawa, Junji Shindo, Hideki Endo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4342347?pdf=render

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