Brown fat: thermogenic effect during arousal from hibernation in the bat.
In the bat Eptesicus fuscus the temperature of brown fat exceeded that of other tissues by about 3 degrees C during the late stages of arousal from hibernation. Heat production seems to be a major function of brown fat in the hibernating mammal.
D000273:Adipose Tissue; D002001:Adipose Tissue, Brown; D000818:Animals; D001143:Arousal; D001833:Body Temperature Regulation; D002685:Chiroptera; D006605:Hibernation; D022722:Thermogenesis
ADIPOSE TISSUE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HIBERNATION