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SUBMITTER: Xie TR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5719795 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xie Tao-Rong TR Liu Chun-Feng CF Kang Jian-Sheng JS
Biophysics reports 20170513 4
Mitochondrion is the main intracellular site for thermogenesis and attractive energy expenditure targeting for obesity therapy. Here, we develop a method of mitochondrial thermometry based on Rhodamine B methyl ester, which equilibrates as a thermosensitive mixture of nonfluorescent and fluorescent resonance forms. Using this approach, we are able to demonstrate that the efficacy of norepinephrine-induced thermogenesis is low, and measure the maximum transient rate of temperature increase in bro ...[more]