Thursday, October 24, 2013

Researchers make a case for free fatty acids in obesity-related diabetes

The current global epidemic of obesity-linked diabetes and its associated consequences - cardiovascular, neurological and renal diseases - is a growing public health problem for which therapeutic options are limited. In obesity, fatty acids, derived mostly from adipose tissue, alter lipid metabolism in other tissues such as liver and skeletal muscles. Both impaired fatty acid metabolism and glucose are hallmarks of diabetes. In a recent study in the journal Biochemistry, a research group led by James A...

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