Article
Neurochemical phenotype of sympathetic nervous system outflow from brain to white fat.
Brain research bulletin - 1 Mar 2001
Shi H, Bartness T J
Abstract excerpt
The sympathetic innervation of white adipose tissue (WAT) appears to be a dominant mechanism triggering lipolysis. The purpose of this study was to determine the neurochemical phenotype of neurons comprising the sympathetic outflow from brain to WAT. This was accomplished by injecting Siberian hamster WAT with a viral retrograde transneuronal tract tracer, the pseudorabies virus (PRV), in combination with...
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