Brown Adipose Tissue

Preferred Label : Brown Adipose Tissue;

NCIt synonyms : BAT;

NCIt related terms : ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; Brown Fat;

NCIt definition : Brown-colored adipose tissue that is present in higher concentrations in newborns and hibernating animals. It contains numerous small droplets of lipids and high numbers of mitochondria as its primary function is to generate body heat.;

Alternative definition : CDISC: Brown-colored adipose tissue that contains numerous small droplets of lipids and high numbers of mitochondria.;

Details

Origin ID

C32235;

UMLS CUI

C0006298;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- 5'-bromoacetamido-5'-deoxythymidine [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- Bile acid coa:amino acid n-acyltransferase [OMIM gene]
- Botulism antitoxin [UNVA Valence]
- Brown creeper (organism) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Order Chiroptera (organism) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Stick [EDQM-ST unit of presentation]
- adipose tissue, white [MeSH Descriptor]
- bile acid-CoA:amino acid N-acyltransferase [ORDO Gene]
- brown adipose tissue [UBERON concept]
- chiroptera [MeSH Descriptor]
- chiroptera [MeSH concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Structure of brown fat (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- adipose tissue, brown [MeSH Descriptor]
- adipose tissue, brown [MeSH concept]
- brown fat [SNOMED Notion]
False automatic mappings
- Brown adipose tissue [FMA entity]
- bat, nos [SNOMED Notion]
Semantic type(s)
- Tissue [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Brown adipose tissue [FMA entity]
- Structure of brown fat (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- adipose tissue, brown [MeSH concept]
- adipose tissue, brown [MeSH Descriptor]
- brown adipose tissue [UBERON concept]
- brown fat [SNOMED Notion]
concept_is_in_subset
- CDISC SEND Biospecimens Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CDISC SEND Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Terminology [NCIt concept]
tissue_is_expression_site_of_gene_product
- Mitochondrial Brown Fat Uncoupling Protein 1 [NCIt concept]

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