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The brown adipocyte differentiation pathway in birds: An evolutionary road not taken

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Title
The brown adipocyte differentiation pathway in birds: An evolutionary road not taken
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BMC Biology, April 2008
DOI 10.1186/1741-7007-6-17
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Nadejda V Mezentseva, Jaliya S Kumaratilake, Stuart A Newman

Abstract

Thermogenic brown adipose tissue has never been described in birds or other non-mammalian vertebrates. Brown adipocytes in mammals are distinguished from the more common white fat adipocytes by having numerous small lipid droplets rather than a single large one, elevated numbers of mitochondria, and mitochondrial expression of the nuclear gene UCP1, the uncoupler of oxidative phosphorylation responsible for non-shivering thermogenesis.

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Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Poland 1 1%
France 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Unknown 95 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 26%
Researcher 16 16%
Student > Master 13 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 7%
Professor 7 7%
Other 20 20%
Unknown 11 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 54 54%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 8%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 4%
Neuroscience 4 4%
Other 11 11%
Unknown 14 14%