Long-term food restriction (3 weeks, 60% of normal consumption of control animals) was followed by an increase in DNA and protein content in the intercapsular brown fat of mice. As the animals were kept under thermoneutral conditions, these changes are thought to be a result of food restriction.
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Translated from Byulleten’ Eksperimental’noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 159, No. 5, pp. 553-556, May, 2015
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Elsukova, E.I., Mizonova, O.V. & Medvedev, L.N. Effects of Long-Term Food Restriction Under Thermoneutral Conditions on Brown Adipose Tissue of Laboratory Mice. Bull Exp Biol Med 159, 601–603 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10517-015-3023-5
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