Innervation of supraclavicular adipose tissue: A human cadaveric study.

Functional brown adipose tissue (BAT) was identified in adult humans only in 2007 with the use of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography imaging. Previous studies have demonstrated a negative correlation between obesity and BAT presence in humans. It is proposed that BAT possesses the capac...

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Main Authors: Will Sievers, Joseph A Rathner, Rodney A Green, Christine Kettle, Helen R Irving, Donna R Whelan, Richard G D Fernandez, Anita Zacharias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236286