Research Article

Brown Adipose Tissue Can Be Activated or Inhibited within an Hour before 18F-FDG Injection: A Preliminary Study with MicroPET

Table 1

Groups according to interventions and the number of mice in each group.

InterventionsMouse number

Temperature intervention18
 Cold exposure6
 Cold exposure + warm stimuli6
 Warm stimuli6
Pharmacological stimulation23
 Norepinephrine (NE)5
 epinephrine5
 isoprenaline6
 NE + cold exposure7
Pharmacological inhibition6
 Cold + propranolol3
 Cold + saline3
Controls12