A major tissue responsible for NST is brown adipose tissue (BAT). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.ĭuring cold exposure the human body may increase heat production by shivering and non-shivering thermogenesis (NST), and minimize heat loss by vasoconstriction. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.įunding: This work is partly financed by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (TOP 91209037 to W.D.vM.L.), and by the EU FP7 project DIABAT (HEALTH-F2-2011-278373). Received: AugAccepted: JPublished: July 11, 2014Ĭopyright: © 2014 Vosselman et al.
Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, United States of America Citation: Vosselman MJ, Vijgen GHEJ, Kingma BRM, Brans B, van Marken Lichtenbelt WD (2014) Frequent Extreme Cold Exposure and Brown Fat and Cold-Induced Thermogenesis: A Study in a Monozygotic Twin.
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