1. Brown Adipose Tissue: A Short Historical Perspective
Paul Trayhurn
2. Brown Fat Anatomy in Humans and Rodents
Georgia Colleluori, Jessica Perugini, Angelica Di Vincenzo, Martina Senzacqua, Antonio Giordano, and Saverio Cinti
3. Analysis of Thermogenesis Experiments with CalR
Marissa D. Cortopassi, Deepti Ramachandran, William B. Rubio, Daniel Hochbaum, Bernardo L. Sabatini, and Alexander S. Banks
4. A Clearing Method for Three-Dimensional Imaging of Adipose Tissue
Zeran Lin, Jingyi Chi, and Paul Cohen
5. Activating Human Adipose Tissue with the β3-Adrenergic Agonist Mirabegron
Kong Y. Chen, Robert J. Brychta, Nikita S. Israni, Alex Jiang, Hannah J. Lea, Taylor N. Lentz, Annie E. Pierce, and Aaron M. Cypess
6. Fluorescent and Luminescent Methods to Detect Lipolysis
Emilio P. Mottillo and James G. Granneman
7. Metabolic Turnover Studies to Quantify Energy Uptake by Thermogenic Adipose Tissues of Mice
Markus Heine, Carlotta Corban, and Joerg Heeren
8. Stable Isotope Tracing and Metabolomics to Study In Vivo Brown Adipose Tissue Metabolic Fluxes
Su Myung Jung, Johnny Le, Will G. Doxsey, John A. Haley, Grace Park, David A. Guertin, and Cholsoon Jang9. Activation of UCP1-Independent Ca2+ Cycling Thermogenesis by Wireless Optogenetics
Kenji Ikeda, Kazuki Tajima, Yuji Tanabe, Ada S.Y. Poon, and Shingo Kajimura
10. Measurement of Futile Creatine Cycling Using Respirometry
Janane F. Rahbani, Edward T. Chouchani, Bruce M. Spiegelman, and Lawrence Kazak
11. Analysis of Enhancers and Transcriptional Networks in Thermogenic Adipocytes
Anne Loft, Maja Worm Andersen, Jesper Grud Skat Madsen, and Susanne Mandrup
12. Diet-Induced Thermogenesis: Principles and Pitfalls
Jan Nedergaard and Barbara Cannon
13. Fluorescent Genetic Tools for Studying Brown Fat Development and Function in Mice
Rajib Mukherjee and Joan Sanchez-Gurmaches
14. Isolation and Characterization of Human Brown Adipocytes
Camilla Scheele, Tora Ida Henriksen, and S ren Nielsen
15. Setting Ambient Temperature Conditions to Optimize Translation of Molecular Work from the Mouse to Human: The ’Goldilocks Solution’
Min Li and John R. Speakman
16. Signaling Lipidomic Analysis of Thermogenic Adipocytes
Sean D. Kodani, Valerie Bussberg, Niven R. Narain, Michael A. Kiebish, and Yu-Hua Tseng
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