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SUBMITTER: Halpern B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7504678 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Halpern Bruno B Mancini Marcio C MC Mendes Caroline C Machado Camila Maria Longo CML Prando Silvana S Sapienza Marcelo Tatit MT Buchpiguel Carlos Alberto CA do Amaral Fernanda Gaspar FG Cipolla-Neto José J
Diabetology & metabolic syndrome 20200921
<h4>Objective</h4>Melatonin has been shown to increase brown adipose tissue (BAT) mass, which can lead to important metabolic effects, such as bodyweight reduction and glycemic improvement. However, BAT mass can only be measured invasively and. The gold standard for non-invasive measurement of BAT activity is positron emission tomography with 2-deoxy-2-[fluorine-18] fluoro-d-glucose (<sup>18</sup>F-FDG PET). There is no study, to our knowledge, that has evaluated if melatonin influences BAT acti ...[more]