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Reduced heart size and increased myocardial fuel substrate oxidation in ACC2 mutant mice.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology - 1 Jul 2008
Essop M Faadiel, Camp Heidi S, Choi Cheol Soo, Sharma Saumya, Fryer Ryan M, Reinhart Glenn A, Guthrie Patrick H, Bentebibel Assia, Gu Zeiwei, Shulman Gerald I, Taegtmeyer Heinrich, Wakil Salih J, Abu-Elheiga Lutfi
Abstract excerpt
The cardiac-enriched isoform of acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC2) is a key regulator of mitochondrial fatty acid (FA) uptake via carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 (CPT1). To test the hypothesis that oxidative metabolism is upregulated in hearts from animals lacking ACC2 (employing a transgenic Acc2-mutant mouse), we assessed cardiac function in vivo and determined rates of myocardial substrate oxidation ex vivo. When...
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