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- Title
Human skeletal muscle mitochondrial uncoupling is associated with cold induced adaptive thermogenesis.
- Authors
Wijers, Sander L J; Schrauwen, Patrick; Saris, Wim H M; van Marken Lichtenbelt, Wouter D
- Abstract
Mild cold exposure and overfeeding are known to elevate energy expenditure in mammals, including humans. This process is called adaptive thermogenesis. In small animals, adaptive thermogenesis is mainly caused by mitochondrial uncoupling in brown adipose tissue and regulated via the sympathetic nervous system. In humans, skeletal muscle is a candidate tissue, known to account for a large part of the epinephrine-induced increase in energy expenditure. However, mitochondrial uncoupling in skeletal muscle has not extensively been studied in relation to adaptive thermogenesis in humans. Therefore we hypothesized that cold-induced adaptive thermogenesis in humans is accompanied by an increase in mitochondrial uncoupling in skeletal muscle.
- Publication
PloS one, 2008, Vol 3, Issue 3, pe1777
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0001777