Brown adipose tissue. III. Effect of ethanol, nicotine and caffeine exposure.
Brown adipose tissue is known to be the most important organ for generating heat in non-shivering thermogenesis. Process of thermogenesis and thermoregulation may be affected by many drugs. The paper deals with actual literary data of effect of ethanol, nicotine and caffeine on brown adipose tissue, heat production and its regulation in experimental animals and in human.
Sidlo
J
J
Institute of Pathology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Zaviacic
M
M
Trutzová
H
H
D002001:Adipose Tissue, Brown / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D001833:Body Temperature Regulation; D002110:Caffeine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000431:Ethanol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D009538:Nicotine / Q000494:pharmacology*
D002110:Caffeine; D000431:Ethanol; D009538:Nicotine