Brown adipose tissue. III. Effect of ethanol, nicotine and caffeine exposure
Sidlo, J.; Zaviacic, M.; Trutzová, H.
Soudni Lekarstvi 41(2): 20-22
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0371-1854 PMID: 9560910 Document Number: 461265
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.