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SUBMITTER: Branca RT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5776810 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Branca Rosa T RT McCallister Andrew A Yuan Hong H Aghajanian Amir A Faber James E JE Weimer Nicholas N Buchanan Riley R Floyd Carlos S CS Antonacci Michael M Zhang Le L Burant Alex A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20171218 1
Detection and quantification of brown adipose tissue (BAT) mass remains a major challenge, as current tomographic imaging techniques are either nonspecific or lack the necessary resolution to quantify BAT mass, especially in obese phenotypes, in which this tissue may be present but inactive. Here, we report quantification of BAT mass by xenon-enhanced computed tomography. We show that, during stimulation of BAT thermogenesis, the lipophilic gas xenon preferentially accumulates in BAT, leading to ...[more]