Glucose metabolism in brown adipose tissue determined by deuterium metabolic imaging in rats.

Mette Ji Riis-VestergaardChristoffer LaustsenChristian Østergaard MariagerRolf F SchulteSteen Bønløkke PedersenBjørn Richelsen

Published in: International journal of obesity (2005) (2020)

We find that DMI can discriminate cold-acclimatised and thermoneutral BAT in rats. This is the first study to evaluate BAT activity by DMI, which may open up for the use of the non-radioactive DMI method for BAT measurements in humans.

Keyphrases

adipose tissue
high resolution
minimally invasive
insulin resistance
high fat diet
type diabetes
skeletal muscle
mass spectrometry