Cold-activated growth of rat brown adipose tissue in the neonatal period
Physiological Research
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Repeated exposure of newborn rats to a short-term cold load between day 10 and 30 after birth stimulates the physiological growth rate of the brown adipose tissue. This indicates that in the neonatal period the brown adipose tissue has no reserve thermogenic capacity to compensate an additional cold load and therefore the rate of tissue growth must be activated.
