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Phospholipid homeostasis regulates lipid metabolism and cardiac function through SREBP signaling in Drosophila.
Genes & development - 15 Jan 2011
Lim Hui-Ying, Wang Weidong, Wessells Robert J, Ocorr Karen, Bodmer Rolf
Abstract excerpt
The epidemic of obesity and diabetes is causing an increased incidence of dyslipidemia-related heart failure. While the primary etiology of lipotoxic cardiomyopathy is an elevation of lipid levels resulting from an imbalance in energy availability and expenditure, increasing evidence suggests a relationship between dysregulation of membrane phospholipid homeostasis and lipid-induced cardiomyopathy. In the present...
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