High Prevalence of Brown Adipose Tissue in Adult Humans | Zendy

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High Prevalence of Brown Adipose Tissue in Adult Humans

Author(s) -

Paul Lee,

Jing Zhao,

Michael M. Swarbrick,

Gary Gracie,

Ron Bova,

Jerry R. Greenfield,

Judith Freund,

Ken K. Y. Ho

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206

H-Index - 353

eISSN - 1945-7197

pISSN - 0021-972X

DOI - 10.1210/jc.2011-0487

Subject(s) - adipose tissue , brown adipose tissue , medicine , physiology , biology

Positron emission tomography (PET)-computed tomography (CT) has identified metabolically active supraclavicular fat in adult humans based on uptake of labeled glucose and confirmed to be brown adipose tissue (BAT) histologically. However, PET-CT has estimated a prevalence of BAT as low as 5% in adult humans, casting doubt on its significance. The true prevalence of BAT is unknown because of the suboptimal sensitivity of standard PET-CT.

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