Preclinical in vivo imaging for brown adipose tissue

Life Sciences
Jiaojiao GuJie Wang

Abstract

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) has multiple functions in the human body, including the production of heat and increasing energy consumption. However, BAT is also related to many kinds of diseases, such as obesity and metabolic disorders. The progression of such diseases occurs at the cellular level, and thus, imaging techniques could prove greatly beneficial for determining optimal therapeutic regimens. Currently, positron-emission tomography (PET) is considered to be the gold standard for assessing the function of activated BAT. However, PET also has inherent disadvantages, and, thus, recent efforts have been focused on exploring, and potentially developing, new imaging techniques to better observe BAT and evaluate its metabolic function. Researchers have already achieved promising success with computed tomography, magnetic resonance approaches, ultrasound, new tracers for use in PET, and other imaging techniques through in vivo and in vitro animal experiments. Since, these studies have shown that BAT may serve as an effective therapeutic target for treatment of metabolic dysfunction diseases, the development of an efficient in vivo BAT imaging technique that is applicable to humans will prove to be of great clinical value. In thi...Continue Reading

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