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A consensus guide to preclinical indirect calorimetry experiments
Banks, Alexander S., David B. Allison, Thierry Alquier, , Steven N. Austad, Johan Auwerx, and Julio E. Ayala. 2025. “A Consensus Guide to Preclinical Indirect Calorimetry Experiments”. Nature Metabolism.
Microbial metabolism of mannitol as a tracer for the non-invasive measurement of oral-cecal transit
Vieira, Daniel E., Emily M. Langmeyer, Marissa D. Cortopassi, Deepti Ramachandran, William B. Rubio, Nagasuryaprasad Kotikalapudi, Yancheng Zhou, and Alexander S. Banks. Submitted. “Microbial Metabolism of Mannitol As a Tracer for the Non-Invasive Measurement of Oral-Cecal Transit”. BioRxiv, Submitted.
Thioesterase superfamily member 1 suppresses cold thermogenesis by limiting the oxidation of lipid droplet-derived fatty acids in brown adipose tissue
Okada, Kosuke, Katherine B. LeClair, Yongzhao Zhang, Yingxia Li, Cafer Ozdemir, Tibor I. Krisko, Susan J. Hagen, Rebecca A. Betensky, Alexander S. Banks, and David E. Cohen. 2016. “Thioesterase Superfamily Member 1 Suppresses Cold Thermogenesis by Limiting the Oxidation of Lipid Droplet-Derived Fatty Acids in Brown Adipose Tissue”. Molecular Metabolism.
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Welcome Prasad! He joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow this March.
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EchoMRI 3-in-1 body composition analyzer Measures live mice up to 100g, tissue samples of 10g, and biopsy samples up to 0.1g Measurements include lean mass, fat mass, and water mass 3-5 minutes per mouse No anesthesia required