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Hyperleptinemia prevents lipotoxic cardiomyopathy in acyl CoA synthase transgenic mice.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Sept 2004
Lee Young, Naseem R Haris, Duplomb Laurence, Park Byung-Hyun, Garry Daniel J, Richardson James A, Schaffer Jean E, Unger Roger H
Abstract excerpt
The physiologic function of the progressive hyperleptinemia of diet-induced obesity is unknown. However, that lipotoxicity in nonadipose tissues of congenitally unleptinized obese rodents is far greater than in hyperleptinemic diet-induced obesity rodents has suggested an antilipotoxic role. To test this hypothesis, mice with severe lipotoxic cardiomyopathy, induced transgenically by cardiomyocyte-specific...
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