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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 264: R1017-R1023, 1993;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 264, Issue 5 1017-R1023, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Rapid changes in metabolic cold defense and GDP binding to brown adipose tissue mitochondria of rat pups

G. Kortner, K. Schildhauer, O. Petrova and I. Schmidt
W. G. Kerckhoff-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut fur Physiologische und Klinische Forschung, Bad Nauheim, Germany.

To determine developmental changes of brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenic activity at defined circadian and thermal states, we evaluated the time course of cold-induced increases of in vitro guanosine 5'-diphosphate (GDP) binding in parallel with whole body metabolism (oxygen consumption, VO2) and core temperature (Tc) in 1- to 11-day-old rat pups. During the maximum phase of the juvenile diurnal cycle, Tc of littermates was recorded continuously and VO2 alternately until 2 min before animals were killed for removal of interscapular BAT. GDP binding after 1.5 h at thermoneutrality and its increase during physiologically comparable cold loads were significantly lower in 1-day-old pups than in 5- and 11-day-old pups. Cold defense was activated more rapidly in the older pups, but GDP binding in even the 1-day-old pups was significantly increased during the second 10-min period of cold exposure. We conclude that rapid changes in thermogenic activity, in connection with the known developmental changes in the dependence of the suckling rat's metabolic cold defense on maternal and sibling contact and circadian phase, will distort longitudinal studies of any fast-changing BAT parameter when the conditions immediately before tissue removal are not thoroughly controlled.


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