Talk:Brown adipose tissue

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this should be a separate article far away from "adipose tissue" (a link would suffice) yeah akjfl v akf jaslkjfa jakfja sjfla;s afja'fj 'aslfja —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.21.231.151 (talk) 16:11, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Eskimos who sleep in igloos retain their brown fat. I read it in Survival of the Sickest by Dr. Sharon Moalem.

perhaps under heat generation in Plantae (see for inspiration: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20031213/bob9.asp)

[edit] Function in plants

Similar cells are also present in some plants, helping them survive in the winter. Other plants such as the Titan arum use specialized cells to raise their temperatures to as high as 38 celsius to enable volatile chemicals to be given off. These chemicals smell like rotten meat and attract flies to the plant, which results in pollination. In both cases the plant has uncoupling proteins in these tissues that uncouple the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation to produce heat.

[edit] No ATP

Brown fat does NOT produce ATP. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.197.116.25 (talk) 00:24, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BAT in birds

I removed the mention of migratory birds from the lead paragraph. Although there have been some reports of BAT-like tissue in birds by histological criteria, there have been no studies of the functionality of this tissue in thermogenesis, and thus no real evidence that it is authentic brown fat. In any case, birds should not be mentioned in the lead.StN (talk) 16:25, 10 December 2007 (UTC)