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Journal Articles (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
Items in this Collection
- 1Arumugam, Yoga
- 1Bell, Rhonda C.
- 1Bonen, Arend
- 1Dyck, David J.
- 1Glatz, Jan F. C.
- 1Luiken, Joost J. F. P.
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Increased rate of fatty acid uptake and plasmalemmal fatty acid transporters in obese Zucker rats
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Arumugam, Yoga, Luiken, Joost J. F. P., Dyck, David J., Bonen, Arend, Tandon, Narendra N., Pelsers, Maurice M. L., Bell, Rhonda C., Turcotte, Lorraine P., Glatz, Jan F. C.
Giant vesicles were used to study the rates of uptake of long-chain fatty acids by heart, skeletal muscle, and adipose tissue of obese and lean Zucker rats. With obesity there was an increase in vesicular fatty acid uptake of 1.8-fold in heart, muscle and adipose tissue. In some tissues only...