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Natural carbon isotope abundance of plasma metabolites and liver tissue differs between diabetic and non-diabetic Zucker diabetic fatty rats.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Godin Jean-Philippe, Ross Alastair B, Cléroux Marilyn, Pouteau Etienne, Montoliu Ivan, Moser Mireille, Kochhar Sunil
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: 'You are what you eat' is an accurate summary for humans and animals when it comes to carbon isotope abundance. In biological material, natural(13)C/(12)C ratio is subject to minute variations due to diet composition (mainly from ingestion of C3 and C4 metabolism plants) and to the discrimination between 'light' and 'heavy' isotopes during biochemical reactions (isotope effects and isotopic...
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