The Mediating Role of Brown Fat and Skeletal Muscle Measured by 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose in the Thermoregulatory System in Young Adults Martínez Téllez, Borja Manuel Acosta Manzano, Francisco Miguel Sánchez-Delgado, Guillermo Llamas Elvira, José Manuel Ruiz Ruiz, Jonatan The authors would like to thank all the participants who took part in this investigation. This study is part of a PhD thesis conducted in the Biomedicine Doctoral Studies of the University of Granada, Spain. We are grateful to Alberto Quesada-Aranda for helping with the development of the Temperatus software (free trial at http://profith.ugr.es/ temperatus?lang=en). We are grateful to Ms Carmen Sainz-Quinn for assistance with English-language editing Objective: This study aimed to examine whether brown adipose tissue (BAT) or skeletal muscle activity mediates the relationship between personal level of environmental temperature (Personal-ET) and wrist skin temperature (WT). Moreover, we examined whether BAT and skeletal muscle have a mediating role between Personal-ET and WT (as a proxy of peripheral vasoconstriction/vasodilation). Methods: The levels of BAT were quantified by cold-induced 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose–positron emission tomography/computed tomography scan and measured the Personal-ET and WT by using iButtons (Maxim Integrated, Dallas, Texas) in 75 participants (74.6% women). Results: The study found that BAT volume and metabolic activity played a positive and significant role (up to 25.4%) in the association between Personal-ET and WT. In addition, at the coldest temperatures, the participants with lower levels of WT (inducing higher peripheral vasoconstriction) had higher levels of BAT outcomes, whereas in warm temperatures, participants with higher levels of WT (inducing higher peripheral vasodilation) had lower levels of BAT outcomes. The study did not find any mediating role of skeletal muscle activity. Conclusions: BAT volume and metabolic activity play a role in the relationship between Personal-ET and WT. Moreover, the data suggest that there are two distinct phenotypes: individuals who respond better to the cold, both through nonshivering thermogenesis and peripheral vasoconstriction, and individuals who respond better to the heat. 2020-05-21T12:52:38Z 2020-05-21T12:52:38Z 2019-04-21 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Martinez‐Tellez, B., Adelantado‐Renau, M., Acosta, F. M., Sanchez‐Delgado, G., Martinez‐Nicolas, A., Boon, M. R., ... & Ruiz, J. R. (2019). The Mediating Role of Brown Fat and Skeletal Muscle Measured by 18F‐Fluorodeoxyglucose in the Thermoregulatory System in Young Adults. Obesity, 27(6), 963-970. [ https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.22461] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/62179 10.1002/oby.22461 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial 3.0 España Wiley