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IN the course of our studies on the generaladaptation syndrome, we were surprised to note the intense morphological changes which occur, during the alarm reaction stage, in the so-called ‘brown fat'. It will be recalled that in various animal species, a special type of adipose tissue occurs, which, upon naked-eye inspection, is characterized by its brownish colour. Histologically, it resembles a lipid-storing endocrine gland (such as the adrenal cortex, the corpus luteum or the Leydig cells of the testis), because its epithelioid cells contain numerous small lipid granules and are richly supplied with capillaries.
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SELYE, H., TIMIRAS, P. Participation of ‘Brown Fat’ Tissue in the Alarm Reaction. Nature 164, 745–746 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164745b0
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