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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
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 study in the journal Biochemistry, a research group led by James A. Hamilton, PhD, professor of physiology, biophysics and radiology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), applied novel fluorescent methods to measure the rate by which fatty acids bind to and move across the fatty acid membrane to become metabolized.
http://www.thealmagest.com/busm-researchers-make-case-free-fatty-acids/6998
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 study in the journal Biochemistry, a research group led by James A. Hamilton, PhD, professor of physiology, biophysics and radiology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), applied novel fluorescent methods to measure the rate by which fatty acids bind to and move across the fatty acid membrane to become metabolized.
http://www.thealmagest.com/busm-researchers-make-case-free-fatty-acids/6998