Several members of the mitochondrial carrier protein family are classified as uncoupling proteins. In contrast to the uncoupling protein specific to brown adipose tissue (UCP1), the physiological role of skeletal muscle uncoupling proteins (UCP2 and UCP3) in weight regulation seems more closely associated with the regulation of lipids as fuel substrate than as mediators of adaptive thermogenesis.

Many different inherited bleeding disorders have been identified in dogs, defined on the basis of quantitative, functional, or structural defects in specific hemostatic proteins or pathways. Most of these disorders are caused by single-gene defects and biochemical assays provide an accurate measure of disease phenotype. Phenotypic disease classifications, however, are often genetically heteroge...